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.

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: experienc...

Table of Contents:

• Vladimir and his Memoirs-a translator's note
• It's a Long Way to Tipperary
• The Documents that Did Not Burn
• A Kinship with Pushkin
• Teachers in Bravery
• The Waiting Hall
• Adventures at the Edge of Civilisation
• Football and Mechanics
• An Engineer's Engineer
• A Series of Secret Doors
• Chronicles of MARS during Perestroika
• A Breath of Free Air
• See the Promised Land and Die
• The Conscience of a Nation
• The Eighth Liberal Art
• Dynamics Should Be Sexy
• A Lesson in Democracy
• The Constant Muse
• A Genius of Faultless Beauty
• I Want to Tell You about the Ones Who Overcame. .