Abraham A. Abrahamyan
Inventor of asynchronous reception of pulse radiolocation signals and Yerevan Singing fountains Abraham A. Abrahamyan – an Armenian Scientist of Radio-electronics, Еngineer-colonel, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1964), Professor (1965). His works were devoted to issues of asynchronous reception of pulse radiolocation signals, the theory of high-frequency asynchronous detection and calculation. Abraham Abrahamyan gathered a team […]
Ed Iskenderian
Inventor of the first hydraulic distribution shaft. Ed Iskenderian, commonly known by his nickname, « Isky », is an American hot rodder and entrepreneur. He was born to first-generation Armenian immigrants, in « grapevine country of Tulare County, California. » Bad weather killed the grapes, compelling his parents to move to Los Angeles. He had an early interest in ham radio; soon, he became fascinated with hot […]
Sarkis Acopian
Creator in 1957 of the first Solar Radio Is it because of his origins that Sarkis Acopian discovered that the sun could become a formidable source of energy for radio… until people wanted to listen to it at night… Biography Acopian was born in the Iranian city of Tabriz in a family of Armenian refugees […]
Alexander Manoogian
Inventor of the Delta faucet In 1966 Alex Manoogian was not the first to wash his hands with too much hot water, but he was the first to think about it and find a great new concept the Delta Faucet … a one-handled faucet that mixed both hot and cold water with one gesture. And […]
Roland Devedjian
Inventor of the famous pressure cooker named « Cocotte-minute » Biography Roland Devedjian, born in 1901 in Sivas and died in 1974, was a foundry engineer of Armenian origin. He immigrated to France from Constantinople in 1919 to escape the genocide of the Armenians. He graduated from a French lycée in Constantinople, where he and his family […]
Elizaveta Shahkhatuni
1st female aeronautical engineer in the USSR Elizaveta Shahkhatuni was a Soviet-Armenian aeronautical engineer and university teacher. Biography Elizaveta Avetovna Shahkhatuni was born in present-day Armenia in December 1911. Her mother was a teacher, while her father Awetis Schachatunjan was a Transcaucasian politician and one of the exponents of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Shahkhatuni left school to study […]
Semyon Kirlian
Inventor of Kirlian photography Semyon Davidovich Kirlian was a Soviet inventor and researcher of Armenian descent, who along with his wife Valentina Khrisanfovna Kirlian, a teacher and journalist, discovered and developed Kirlian photography. First discoveries By 1939 Kirlian had acquired a reputation as the best local resource for repairing electrical equipment, and was regularly called upon to fix the […]
Armais Arutunoff
Inventor of the technology for oil drilling Armais Sergeevich Arutunoff was an inventor of technology for oil drilling. He was born in Tiflis, then part of the Russian Empire, into an Armenian family. He emigrated to the United States in 1923, and moved to Oklahoma in 1928, where he started a company to build an electric submersible pump for use at the bottom of oil boreholes. Before […]
Alexander Garsoev (Garsoyan)
First designer of Soviet submarines Alexander Garsoev (Garsoyan) is one of the rare scientists in history who practiced in the offshore waters of military operations. However, underwater activity in any case was risky, even in peacetime – the overwhelming majority of the first submariners died during the experiments. Alexander Garsoev (1882-1934) was born in Tblisi […]
Hrand Djevahirdjian
Pioneer in the industrial production of synthetic crystals Born march 29 1880 in Constantinople, died november 24 1947 in Monthey, former student of the Mekhitarist College in Venice. Lapidary and gemstone merchant in Paris, Hrand was a pioneer in the industrial production of synthetic crystals. In 1914, he moved to Monthey, where he found the […]
