Word: kibalchich
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...James Watt, but by Ivan Polzunov. Thomas Edison gets false credit for the light bulb; Alexander Lodygin thought it up first. The first airplane was not constructed by Wilbur and Orville Wright, but by a Russian naval officer, Alexander Mozhaisky. The first jet plane was designed by Nikolai Kibalchich, a terrorist, while he awaited execution, in 1881, for his part in the assassination of Czar Alexander II. It was Vyacheslav Manassein who discovered penicillin, 75 years ahead of Britain's Alexander Fleming, and Leonid Vasilievich Sobolev who discovered insulin, 21 years ahead of Canada's Frederick Banting...
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