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From a pharmacist to an oilman - these few words summarize the career of Ignacy Łukasiewicz- an outstanding Pole. While working by day in Lvov pharmacy "At Gold Star" (Pod Złotą Gwiazdą), he was spending evenings conducting experiments with the substance called rock oil. In 1854, Łukasiewicz opened the world's first oil mine in Bóbrka, near Krosno. Although not all historians agree on this matter, it is assumed that the "distillery" founded by Łukasiewicz in Ulaszowice near Jasło, in 1856, was also the world's first oil refinery. However, there is no doubt about the fact that Łukasiewicz was the inventor of the first oil lamp (1853) and the founder of the crude oil mine in Bóbrka in Galicia, in 1854.
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The world's first hydrogen bomb design was developed in 1951 by a team of scientists working for the US government in a secret project "Manhattan". Stanisław Ulam, a Polish mathematician and graduate of Lvov Technical University, was among the scientists working on this project. In the USA, this project is still named "Teller-Ulam" project - after Edward Teller, the team leader, and Ulam. The hydrogen bomb has a huge destructive force: it is estimated that if a city with 3 million inhabitants was attacked, half of the population would die within a few minutes or suffer serious injuries. Stanislaw Ulam was also the creator of the first numerical methods, including Monte Carlo method.
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The explosion of the oil tanks belonging to HOSL, England, which took place on 11 December 2005, was recorded by the British Geological Research Centre as an earthquake measuring 2.4 on the Richter scale. It was recorded even in Belgium, France and Holland. The cloud of smoke was visible from space.
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The shock wave forming a thin layer in which a rapid increase in gas pressure and gas flow velocity occur propagates faster than the speed of sound (in air, this value is 340 m/s).
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By 1938, the Polish industry did not produce any machinery and equipment in explosion-proof version. It was not until that year that Zakłady Elektromechaniczne Rohn-Zieliński (Electromechanical Plant Rohn-Zieliński) in Cieszyn (now ME Celma SA) started preparing for the production of explosion-proof motors based on the license documentation of the Swiss company Brown Boveri. The motors were designed for mining industry.
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