On the Waves of a Pulsating World An Engineer's Adventures in Innovation, Education and Politics: From Russia to the West /

• Main Author: Babitsky, Vladimir (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Biographies,
• Subjects: Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Technology.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Science education.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Popular Science in Technology.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.; Science Education.
• Physical Description: XIV, 160 p. 53 illus., 36 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030308490
• ISSN: 2365-0613
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30849-0

Vladimir Babitsky was born before the Second World War and migrated West after Perestroika. The theory of vibro-impact systems that he developed helped create the world's safest jackhammer and other record-breaking machines. The author has lived through a series of fascinating epochs: experiencing life under totalitarianism, witnessing the Soviet Union's collapse, and then migrating to Europe as a specialist in his field. "On the Waves of a Pulsating World" is an animated and highly engaging story about the journey of an engineer; from childhood daydreams to creating new technologies, from East to West, and from concepts to realities. It is also the story of people who outshine authoritarianism.