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2 unusual facts about Fyodor Pirotsky


Fyodor Pirotsky

Among people who met Pirotsky was Carl Heinrich von Siemens who was very interested and asked many questions.

In 1874 he started experiments on Volkov Field in Saint Petersburg and in 1875 he put electrically powered railway cars on the Sestroretsks railway Miller's line (not far from the station Miller's pier).


Miller's line

In 1875, on an area between Miller's pier and Sestroretsk rail station, the engineer Fyodor Pirotsky experimented on the adaptation of rail transport to be driven by an electrogalvanic cell.


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