Un om de știință român foarte puțin cunoscut: Nicolae Moraru
A Romanian scientist, unknown to the general public: Nicolae Moraru

Summary/Abstract: The evolution of Romanian science and technology, most often under the influence of movements in the political world, has recorded over the last two centuries, periods of stagnation and unex pected leaps, the latter being generated by the emergence of some reforms or development initiatives, which were generated at the level of political leadership. This is how things happened during the reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza and Carol I of Romania, also Ferdinand I of Romania (to a lesser extent) and especially during the Ceaușescu Regime. Especially after the events (Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia) that took place in the summer of 1968, in Romania, the political decision gave the start of a vast program of development and modernization. That initiative has cov ered a lot of economic and technical scientific aspects, referring to a large number of scientific and economic areas. The research and development activity, in particular, was very advantaged. The activity of the Romanian researcher and inventor Nicolae Moraru was largely part of this histori cal context. He was a researcher at ICENERG ( later, ICEMENERG) Bucharest, carried out a research activity that first aimed at understand ing the phenomena of generation and natural transport of electrons in the Earth’s atmosphere, also, the applications of these phenomena in the field of electromagnetic weapons; the designing and developing for new models of electric motors and electrochemical sources intended for them; the remotorisation of the Dacia 1300 chassis with an electric motor of exclusively Romanian design and production; the improvement of combustion processes in industrial boilers and in the scheme of internal combustion engines etc. This paper comes as a restitution for the history of Romanian science and technology, seeking to bring back to the atten tion of the academic environment and of the general public, datas and informations about personalities and facts unjustly forgotten or erased from the official history.

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