Features of the development of electrical measuring technology in Ukraine (1960–1980s)

Abstract

The industrial potential of a country largely depends on the level of development of measuring equipment. In the large arsenal of measuring equipment, a significant place has always belonged to electrical measuring equipment. The purpose of the article is to investigate the development of electrical measuring technology in Ukraine during the 1960s‑1980s. The scientific novelty of the results obtained lies in the fact that, based on the involvement of materials from the funds of the State Archive of Kyiv, Kyiv, the Central State Archive of Higher Authorities and Administration of Ukraine revealed the contribution of research teams of scientific centers of Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv to the development and implementation of electrical measuring equipment and outlined the impact of their achievements on increasing the scientific and technical level of various branches of the industrial complex. In accordance with the latest world trends in improving the quality of electrical measuring equipment, the use of digital methods, scientists of Ukrainian centers proposed a number of promising electrical measuring devices. In the Lviv Research Radio Engineering Institute, special-purpose and widely used oscilloscopes were developed, which were recognized on the international market. As a result of the activities of the scientific school of methods for increasing the accuracy of measuring devices of Kyiv Polytechnic (heads A. D. Nesterenko and P. P. Ornatskyi), a number of digital measuring devices were created, which were implemented at the enterprises “Tochelektroprylad”, “Punane RET” (Tallinn). The Department of Information and Measurement Engineering of the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute has begun scientific research on the development of the theory of bigenerator circuits. The digital extreme bridge created by scientists from the Institute of Electrodynamics of the NAS of Ukraine was introduced into production at the “Tochelektroprilad” enterprise. The activities of the team of the Research Institute of “Mikroprylad” in the development of microelectronic devices, the creation and subsequent introduction into serial production of hybrid integrated circuits are highlighted. It is proven that scientific seminars played an important role in the development of the direction of electrical measurement engineering.