Analysis of the professor O. P. Borodin’s scientific works (1848–1898) in the sphere of Railway Transport

Yuliia Kosovets’

Abstract— Oleksandr Parfeniiovych Borodin is a railway engineer, professor, one of the founders of the steam locomotive building in the Russian Empire. In 1879 he organized the first country’s laboratory of fuel, water and lubrication on the South‐Western Railway. In 1880‐1882 on the basis of Kiev railway workshops he created the world’s first steam locomotive laboratory. Together with L. M. Levy he developed a methodology for testing stationary locomotives. The world’s first tandem compound steam engine was built according to the O. P. Borodin’s project in 1885. O. P. Borodin is the founder and the editor of journal «Engineer» (1882, Kyiv). Since 1889 he has been the chief editor of the journal. Russian Technical Society established the Golden Medal named after O. P. Borodin for the best invention and researches in the sphere of railway transport. The article analyzes the scientific achievements of O. P. Borodin in the sphere of railway transport. It was concluded that O. P. Borodin had solved a number of problems in the field of thermo technical tests on locomotive’s steam machine. He proved the engine to be not only a thermal power, but a traction unit. All this forced him to move from thermo technical locomotives’ researches to traction and thermo‐traction technical generalizations.

Key words: O. P. Borodin, engine, heat engineering, trains’ traction