BOOK 2. THE BATH SCHOOL. N. LEVASHOV'S «SVETL BROOM» IN A. KHATYBOV'S «BATH SCHOOL» AND A LABOUR SPADE

Book 2. The Bath School. Chapter 1. His chekmate to the System 36 solve a number of technical problems in which he actively participated and from time to time got diplomas for the best inventions. His father was a builder, so, obviously, because of this Nicolai made up his mind to invent a machine for painting large horizontal surfaces. Later he put in applications to the State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. They are VERY SERIOUS APPLICATIONS even for today. Firstly , they are absolutely correctly executed, and secondly , apart from the application materials, he put into real shape constructions for his inventions. Unfortunately, it is not known whether they passed the examination or not, but Igor Mikhailovich Kondrakov, as a patent expert, assured that if they passed the examination, they were given the "S" labels, and they had to issue author's certificates. Here is a fragment of one of the applications. Practice shows that majority of creative personalities, in particular, inventors often do not know where to turn to with their idea and how to have it patented. The inventive activity in the USSR was put on a high level, but legally it was at a very low level. And different type of dishonest people sometimes made use of it, stealing the idea from the inventors and giving it out for their own . Often the inventor remained with his idea for the rest of his life, trusting no one, with an ephemeral hope that once it might eventually be appreciated and implemented. Alas, ideas have the quality of "aging".