Science and technology №12 (1949)

1. Professor of the Bauman Higher Technical School G.A. Shaumyan developed a unique system of automatic machines.

Experiments and demonstration of automatic machines for precision instruments.

Stalin Prize. 2. The Stalin Prize of the first degree was received by a group of scientists for breeding a new variety of tea in Georgia.

Tea pickers manually collect tea on plantations.

Experiments and tests with tea bushes by crossing different types of tea. 3. A group of students led by Professor Grigory Semenovich Petrov invented the universal glue BF. Experiments and tests with the universal glue BY in laboratories and in production. 4. Asian locust in reed fields.

Analysis of the life of the Asian locust.

Swarms of Asian locusts attack agricultural fields.

Aviators in special planes spray the fields with chemicals that kill locusts in the bud.