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HISTORY

of my invention for the whole world and
convinced by my own experience of its
potential, but wishing to bring special
benefit to my fatherland ... I ask you
to allow me to carry out my project
at the expense of the government at
one of the state-owned factories; ... in
addition to the technical advantages
... would represent millions of dollars
in savings for our state. Millions of
hard-hitting coins could remain in our
homeland."
The ministry took a different
approach to the wonderful project. The
"authoritative" commission ridiculed
the inventor, referring to the fact that
... abroad they do not make stoves like
that.
Modern mill for rolling armor plates This did not end there.
The commission and the Grand
Duke, to whom Pyatov also addressed,
promised to "check" the correctness of the project and "find out the opinion" of foreign
industrialists about it.
Soon, the grand duke visited England, where he told about the invention of the Russian
master to the local breeder Brown. Brown, who instantly appreciated the enormous significance
of the invention made by the Russian metallurgist, easily assured his interlocutor that the
Russian project was worthless, that all this was supposedly both difficult and expensive. A year
later, in the city of Sheffield in England, the first rolling mill began to work, from under the
shafts of which thick steel plates crawled out. The inventor of the stanzas was ... Brown. He
even had the privilege of this invention.
After the idea of rolling armor was stolen by an Englishman, the Naval Ministry bought
from him the right to use a Russian invention in Russian factories for huge money!
The indignation of Pyatov himself and other honest people who knew the history of his invention,
of course, did not lead to anything.
And how could it be otherwise in Russia at that time!

To be continued.

"Stories about the Russian Championship"
Moscow, 1950

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