{"id":291021,"date":"2023-06-28T09:18:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T07:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=291021"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:18:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T07:18:32","slug":"warsaw-university-of-technology-students-develop-a-rescue-capsule-that-can-save-the-lives-of-drowning-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/warsaw-university-of-technology-students-develop-a-rescue-capsule-that-can-save-the-lives-of-drowning-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw University of Technology students develop a rescue capsule that can save the lives of drowning people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warsaw University of Technology students Micha\u0142 Karelus and Micha\u0142 Niedzielczyk have invented a device to help drowning people. The project by the students of the Warsaw University of Technology&#8217;s Faculty of Automobiles and Working Machines consists of an inflatable rescue dart and an ejection system. Its advantage is that providing assistance does not require direct contact with the victim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The system is made up of two pneumatic cushions with a pumping mechanism that activates on contact with water. The cushions are enclosed in a capsule, which is launched towards the drowning person. The capsule has a range of up to 60 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michal Niedzielczyk emphasises that a person undertaking rescue operations using the PW students&#8217; device does not need to have special qualifications or rescue skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;The rescue capsule is the size of a 1.5-litre water bottle, while the inflatable cushions are metre-long cylinders providing the buoyancy of modern pneumatic waistcoats&#8217;, explains Micha\u0142 Karelus. The prototype was made using 3D printing using the FDM method.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warsaw University of Technology students Micha\u0142 Karelus and Micha\u0142 Niedzielczyk have invented a device to help drowning people. The project by the students of the Warsaw University of Technology&#8217;s Faculty of Automobiles and Working Machines consists of an inflatable rescue dart and an ejection system. Its advantage is that providing assistance does not require direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":290928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291029,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291021\/revisions\/291029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}