Fedir Pirotsky. Ukrainian scientists. Репетитор Англійської

Fedir Pirotsky is a Ukrainian scientist.
He was born in 1845, in Lokhvytsya, Poltava Hubernia.
He studied at Saint Petersburg and worked there.
Fedir Pirotsky was an engineer and an inventor.
He invented the world’s first railway electrification system and an electric tram.
In early 1880 trams were horse-driven.
Fedir Pirotsky said horses could not be used as a transport all the time.
He modified a double-decker, horse-driven tramway to be powered by electricity instead of horses.
He did experiments with the electric tram.
The electricity was transferred over a distance of one kilometer.
In his design, rails were connected to a generator.
Both rails were isolated from the ground.
His unusual form of public transport started to serve residents of his city.
Some historians say that this was the first electric tram in the world.
Pirotsky did not have money to continue his experiments, but his works became famous around the world.
Among people who met Pirotsky was Carl Heinrich von Siemens who was very interested and asked many questions.
In 1881, the brothers Siemens started producing their own design of electric trams commercially.
Fedir Pirotsky also installed the first underground electric cable to transfer electricity.
He was the author of a project for centralizing the city's electricity production using underground cables.
He proposed new constructions of blast furnaces and bakery ovens.
Fedir Pirotsky was poor during his lifetime.
At the end of his life he lived on his military pension in the town of Oleshky Kherson Region and died in 1898.