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MARKO POLO
15 September 1254
., Island of Korčula
-
8–
9
January 1324., Republic of Venice
Merchant travellerSlide3
Polo
’s journey
He
was an
merchan
t
raveller
from Venice whose travels are
recorded in a book which did much to introduce Europeans to
Central Asia and ChinaThis book inspired Christopher Columbus and many othertravellers.Polo influenced European cartography.Slide4
BENKO KOTRULJIĆ
(Benedikt Kotruljević)
Dubrovnik, 1416. – 1469.
Croatian trader, economist,
diplomat and humanist
Location:
front of
h
otel
Sheraton, ZagrebSlide5
Oldest manuscript on
double-entry
The first known manual about
book-keeping was
Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto
, (On merchantry and the perfect merchant) written in 1458 by Benko Kotruljić or Benedikt Kotruljević.
It is also the oldest known manuscript on
double-entry.Slide6
FREDRIK GRISOGONO
Born in Zadar, 1472. – 1538.
A
mathematician, physicist,
astronomer and physicianSlide7
His most important contribution was the theory of tides, based on the attraction of the Moon, which influenced Mark Antun Dominis. He discovered the antipodal tidal wave. His theory of tides is described in De modo collegiandi, pronosticandi et curandi febres, nec non de humana felicitate ac denique de fluxu et refluxu maris, Venice 1528.
Theory of tidesSlide8
VINKO PALETIN
Island of Korčula, 1508. – Mexico, 1575.
N
aval
theorist, a Dominican theologian,
historian, mathematician, cartographer,
travel writer, lawyer and diplomatSlide9
Paletin in Mexico
He made a map of Spain names Spagna con le de distantie whether loci.
He a
rrived
to Mexico as a young missionary.
He mentioned that builders of Maya pyramids in
Chichen
-Itza,
Mayapan
and Uxumal, as well as builders of huge basalt heads, were in fact old Cartagians which according to antic authors sailed off long ago across Gibraltar, and discovered the New World (Hesperids). Maya Indians recounted to Paletin an old legend about "the arrival of bearded people from far away". Slide10
Sebenico
, Republic
o
f
Venice
(today Šibenik in Croatia), 1551. – Mletci
, 1617.
P
olymath, inventor and bishop He was known for the invention of the parachute, but he was also a builder of bridges series of original structure, submarines, war machines, fortifications, the cable carFAUST VRANČIĆSlide11
Vrančić’s
sculpture
Location:
entrance to the Technical
MuseumSlide12
Vrančić
’s parachute
T
o be the first man to build and test a parachute
.
He was t
ested
the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile In Venice
.
A parachute dubbed Homo Volans ("The Flying Man")Slide13
Vrančić
’s windmills
W
indmills
with both vertical and
horizontal axesSlide14
Vran
č
i
ć
also described in his book
Machinae
Novae
the first
wind turbine
.Wind turbineSlide15
MARIN GETALDIĆ
Marinus Ghetaldus
2. October 1568., Dubrovnik –
11. April 1626., Dubrovnik
Mathematician and physicistSlide16
Parabolic mirror
Getaldić was the constructor of the parabolic mirror (66 cm in diameter), kept today at the National Maritime Museum in
London
.
He
worked construction of various physical instruments, such as, for example, refractory telescope.Slide17
IVO PULJIZIĆ
B
orn
in
Pu
čišća
on the island of Bra
č
,
Made irrigation plans for the Vatican and projected various Vatican bell-towers in the time of Pope Innocent X, 17th centurySlide18
FERDINAND KONŠČAK
Varaždin, 1703 - 1757
A
Jesuit missionary, explorer, an
d
cartographer
H
e was active as a missionary on
New Spain's Baja California peninsula (today part of Mexico), from 1732 to the end of his life.Slide19
Baja California
In 1752 he discovered that
Baja California
was not an island, as it had been believed until then, but a peninsula. There is a collection of rocky islets on the north of the Californian bay named in his
honour
as the
Consag
Rocks (
Consag Rocas, or Roca de Consag, near San Felipe). Konščak spoke various dialects of local Indians, in particular a very difficult dialect of Cochinin Indians. He described a sort of boomerang that Indians used for hunting rabbits.Slide20
RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ
He was born in Dubrovnik 1711., Croatia
P
hysicist
, astronomer, mathematician,
philosopher, diplomat, poet,
theologian,
Jesuit priest, and a
polymathSlide21
I
nventions
of
Ruđer Bošković
He produced a precursor of atomic theory and made many contributions to astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining
theequator
of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position. In 1753 he also discovered the absence of atmosphere on the Moon.Slide22
S
culpture
s of Bošković
Location
:
entrance to the
Technical Museum
Location
:
Getaldićeva 4
Technical
school Ruđer
BoškovićSlide23
IGNACIJE
SZENTMARTONY
Kotoriba in Međimurje
,
1718. – 1793.
In 1751 he went to
Lisabon
, where he obtained the title of royal mathematician and astronomer, and as such was designated to be a member of expedition for determining borders. In 1753 he sailed off from Portugal to the mouth of Amazon river for geographic research there. Only a small amount of his work is preserved to these days: two maps of the Amazon and Rio Negro. By the end of his life, upon return to Croatia, he wrote the first Croatian
kajkavian
grammar for Germans: Einleitung zur kroatischen Sprachlehre für Teutschen, Vara
ž
din 1783.Slide24
LUDWIG
(Ljudevit) M
ITTERPACHER
VON
M
ITTERBURG
(Mitterburg = Pazin in Istria
)
Bilje (in eastern Croatia,Baranja) 1734 – 1814In 1777, Mitterpacher became the first professor of the newly-established agricultural faculty at the Pest UniversityHis most significant work was the three-volume Elementa rei
Rusticae
, a comprehensive study of agricultural science and practice. Subjects included cultivation, plant-growing, horticulture, vine-growing, forestry, animal husbandry and food processing. His books originally written in Latin language were translated into several languages and became important works of reference for contemporary science
.Slide25
FILIP VEZDIN or WESDIN
Croatian village of Cimov (Hof am
Leithagebirge) in Lower Austria in
Burgenland (Gradišće) 1748. – 1806.
Pioneer of European indology
Vezdin
was sent to India in 1776,
where he learned Sanskrit and
several Indian dialects
Vezdin's research gave a great impetus to investigation of culture and civilization of India in EuropeYourSlogan
hereSlide26
FRANJO DOMIN
Zagreb
,
1754. – 1819.
Domin
studied physics and theology in Vienna and later became a dean at the Faculty of Philosophy and rector of the University of Budapest. He was among the first who cured various diseases by electrotherapy using static electricity.Slide27
IVAN LUPIS
(GIOVANNI BIAGIO LUPPIS)
27
.
August 1813
., Rijeka
–
11
. January 1875., Torriggia Croatian-Italian officer of the Austro-Hungarian Navy who developed the first prototypes of the self-propelled torpedoSlide28
Lupis’s torpedo
He invented in 1860., and built a torpedo which was later perfected by British mechanical engineer, Robert Whitehead
.
A few years later in Rijeka was founded first torpedo factory in the world. From 1880
.
years
Lupis
-Whitehead torpedo armament becomes standard developed navies. Torpedo has changed the way warfare at sea and transferred the battlefield from
the air and land in the sea water.Slide29
ANTE ŠUPUK
21. August 1838., Šibenik –
11. May 1904., Šibenik
Croatian engineer and inventorSlide30
Hydroelectric power plant
In 1895 he built the
Jaruga
Hydroelectric Power Plant as one of the world's first hydroelectric power plants, and connected it to a lighting system using alternating current. It was the first of its kind in Dalmatia and Croatia.
Šibenik
became the first city in Europe who got the
polyphase
AC system to supply 320 city lights.
Two days after
Jaruga was released hydroelectric Power at Niagara Falls to Tesla's patent.Slide31
FERDINAND KOVAČEVIĆ
Gospić,
1838.
–
1913.
Croatian inventor, engineer, and pioneer in telegraphy
.Slide32
Telegraphy
He invented the possibility of telegraphic connection along a single wire (the duplex connection), whereas before four wires had been used. By the way, Zagreb had its telegraph lines only six years after the first telegraph lines in the world introduced by Morse (Washington-Baltimore, 1844).Slide33
JOSIP BELUŠIĆ
Župan
i
ći
near
Labin
, 12. March 1847
Croatian
inventor of the electric speedometerSlide34
V
elocimetar
In 1888
Josip
Belušić
invented and designed the first electric speedometer
.
This invention was patented in Austria-Hungary under the name of “velocimeter’’. Slide35
SPIRIDION BRUSINA
He was a
nalyzed
and classified 600 fossil species. He has a great merit for popularizing science in Croatia. Natural scientists throughout Europe named in his honor about 50 species according to his name.
Croatian malacologist
11
.
December 1845
. – 21. May 1909. DubrovnikSlide36
DAVID SCHWARZ
Aviation inventor
He was born in
Hungar
y 1852.,
but w
hen he was thirteen years
old, moved in Županja, Croatia. Slide37
Scharz
’s airship
Schwarz'
s
airship flew November 3, 1
89
7
.
to Tempelhof airfield near Berlin. He raised to a height of 466 meters. But Scwarz not lived to see this day because he died of a heart attack ten months earlier. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin purchased Schwarz's airship patent from his widow, a claim which has been disputed.Slide38
A
NTUN
L
UČIĆ
(Anthony F. Lucas
)
Island of Hvar, Croatia,
1855
. -
Washington, USA, 1921.He discovered the first major gusher in Texas Slide39
The Lucas gusher
The Lucas gusher
, flowing at the rate of 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day
It blew in January 1901. About 50,000 people came to see it. This meant the earliest massive exploitation of oil and petroleum in the world.
Anthony Lucas (
Antun
Lu
č
i
ć) invented the so called "Christmas tree", which is the system of valves and pipes installed on the wellhead to harness a gusher.His company became one of the first oil companies in TexasSlide40
Some of the most important inventions of Anthony F. Lucas, that are still in use
O
verhead
method of mining in salt mines
S
urface
exploration of underground mineral
deposits
A
pplication of hydraulic rotary rig in oil well drilling Construction and application of back pressure valveUse of clay for drilling fluidsConstruction of blowout, so called "killing" equipment
D
esigning
of well logsSlide41
NIKOLA TESLA
Smiljan, 10. srpnja 1856. – New York, SAD, 7. siječnja 1943.
E
migrating to the United States in 1884
.
I
nventor
, electrical engineer,
mechanicalengineer, physicist, and futurist bestknown for his contributions to the designof the modern alternatingcurrent (AC) electricity supplysystem.Slide42
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla gave the world more than 700 inventions, some unfortunately less known to the public.
The most important inventions:
The system of multi-phase currents and the rotating magnetic field (AC polyphase motors and generators on the principle of a rotating magnetic field)
AC transmission system and distribution of electricity
Tesla oscillation transformer (Tesla Coil)
Lighting using high-frequency currents
The system of wireless transmission of radio signals and power
Teleautomation (remote control boat)
Tesla turbine RadioSlide43
BrainyQuote
“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own” Slide44
DRAGUTIN GORJANOVIĆ KRAMBERGER
Zagreb, 1856. – 1936.
Croatian geologist,
paleontologist, and archeologistSlide45
Neanderthal people
He discovered the richest collection of remains of
Diluvial
Neanderthal people in the world on a site not far from Zagreb (
Krapina
). He was the first man in history to have used X-rays to analyze fossil bones (X-rays were discovered by Nikola Tesla).
Gorjanović-Kramberger's
research helped prove the theory of evolution of human species, and his theories have had an impact on the social view of the world.Slide46
IVAN VUČETIĆ (Juan Vucetich)
Island of Hvar, 1858. - Argentina, 1925.
A criminologist and anthropologistSlide47
Dactilonome
He was one of the pioneers of the scientific
dactiloscopy
(identification by fingerprints) and occupied the position of the director of the Center for
Dactiloscopy
in Buenos Aires. His method of identification was in use throughout South America.
Vucetic
was also the one who introduced the notion of
dactiloscopy in 1920, now in current use worldwide. Ivan Vucetic deviced an original instrument for classification of fingerprints called dactilonome.Slide48
ANDRIJA MOHOROVIČIĆ
Volosko, 1857. – 1936.
Croatian meteorologist and seismologistSlide49
S
tructure
of the Earth
His discovery was essential for understanding the inner structure of the Earth and the behavior of seismic waves. Together with the theory of forces due to
Ru
đ
er
Bo
šković, this is probably the greatest achievement in the history of Croatian science.Slide50
SLAVOLJUB EDUARD
PENKALA
He
was born in
Liptovský
Mikuláš
, Austria–
Hungary, 1871. - Zagreb, 5. veljače 1922.
Becoming a naturalized Croat.Inventor, aviation pioneer, entrepreneurSlide51
Some inventions of
Penkala
He is author of 80 patents. His original inventions are: a mechanical toothbrush, mechanical pencil "pen“, pen with spiral plunger holder for the stylus, hard vinyl records, anode batteries, draft hovercraft, aerodynamic profile, motor aircraft, laundry detergent, thermos bottle and water bottle, brakes for wagonsSlide52
FRANJO HANAMAN
He was born in Drenovci, 1878., Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, Croatia today
He was a Croatian inventor, engineer, and chemistSlide53
Electric
light-bulb
He was
gained world recognition for inventing the world's first applied electric light-bulb with a metal filament (tungsten) with his assistant
Aleksandar
Just, independently of his contemporaries.Slide54
MARCEL PL. KIEPACH
Križevci, 12. February 1884. –
Russian front, 12. August
Inventor, a “Child prodigy“
Patented the dynamo lightingSlide55
Maritime compass
Marcel patented a maritime compass that indicates north regardless of the presence of iron or magnetic forces. He patented an improved version in London on December 20, 1911. This second version was a remote maritime compass device, consisting of
ampermeters
as the indicating instruments located in different parts of the ship, resistant to magnetic forces or magnetic masses in their vicinity.Slide56
Dynamo for vehicle lighting
In France,
Kiepach
patented a dynamo for vehicle lighting. It was an
e
lectric
generator
combined with the mechanical drive of the vehicle itself. His "small transformer" forlow voltage was widely implemented according to the "Kiepach-Weiland System". He also patented a power switch. He was active in various other areas of mechanics and electronics. He held correspondence with famous world scientists and inventors.Slide57
LAVOSLAV RUŽIČKA
Vukovar, 13. September, 1887. - Zurich, Switzerland, 26. September, 1976.
S
cientist
and winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
He received eight
honoris
causa doctorates in science, medicine, and law; seven prizes and medals; and twenty-four honorary memberships in chemical, biochemical, and other scientific societies.Slide58
Musk and male hormone
He proved that musky fragrances,
civetone
and
muscone
, macrocyclic ketones, which allowed the production of the precious synthetic musk fragrances.
Published a partial synthesis of the male hormone androsterone and the following year, testosterone.
In 1939th awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.Slide59
HERMAN POTOČNIK
Pula, 22. December 1892. - Vienna,
Austria, 27. August 1929.
Expert in missile technology and a
pioneer of astronauticsSlide60
Space travel
At the end of the 1928th year published a book, "The problem of space travel - a rocket engine," in which he offered technical solutions that are at the time surprisingly new and original.
In this book he develops a detailed and accurate calculations and design for a rocket engine that achieves first space velocity (Earth's orbit), calculations of other space velocity (leaving the Earth's orbit), exactly elaborates geostationary orbit (where satellites apparently "standing" of the same item Countries - telecommunications). Entitled his masterpiece is his blueprint viable orbital station.Slide61
ERAZMO BERNARD TIĆAC
Kostrena (near Rijeka) 1904. – 1968.
The Savannah nuclear ship, the
first nuclear-powered merchant ship,
was built to the plans of
Erazmo
Tićac
A shipbuilding engineerSlide62
The Savannah nuclear ship
The ship was launched on the 21st of July 1959; her maiden voyage started on the 31st of January 1962, and regular service started in 1963. It had two reactors, could reach a speed of 21 knots and with one fuel of tank it could sail for almost three and a half years. It docked in Rijeka
harbour
several times, first on the 19th of November 1966.
On a plaque above the entrance to the ship's lounge was written in golden letters: "Ben
Tićac
, naval architect". Slide63
VILIM SREĆKO FELLER
William "Vilim" Feller
A
mathematician specializing
in probability theory
.
Zagreb,
7
.
July 1906. – New York,14. January 1970.Slide64
‘’Mathematical genius’’
More than 150 mathematical notions bear his name, and here are just a few of them:
Feller's process, Feller's transition function, Feller's
semigroup
, Feller's property
.
Feller was awarded the National Medal of Science of the USA in 1969.Slide65
MARIO PURETIĆ
King of Purse Seine Fishing
1917
.
born in Croatia in the town of
Sumartin
on the island of Bra
č.
C
onstruction of what is now known as the Puretic Power BlockSlide66
Puretić Power Block
Until then fishing nets had to be
manually drawn by eight to ten people,
which was an extremely difficult job. The
Marco Seattle company developed
Puretic's
idea, and it soon became a
standard mean of fishing in the whole
world. In 1975 the United States Patent
Office conferred him a specialrecognition for his patent which
revolutionarized
the fishing technology
worldwide. He was elected among
hundred greatest inventors of the 20
th
century in the USA.Slide67
HRVOJE ŠARIĆ
Knin, 1922. – 2007.
He has about seventy inventions in various technical disciplinesSlide68
SRF 360
In 1972
Hrvoje
Š
arić
invented and patented the first professional 360 degree
synchro
-rotational photo-camera in history, named SRF 360. In 1988 he deviced the first electronical construction consisting of nine BETACAM videocameras, catching every detail within the full circle, while the picture was projected onto a circular screen using nine LCD projectors based on liquid crystals. Slide69
ANTE MAGLICA (Anthony Tony Maglica)
New York, 1930., spent his childhood on the Dalmatian island Zlarin
T
he owner and founder of
Mag
Instrument Inc
.Slide70
Maglite flashlight
The late 1970’s,
the market has
introduced Maglite
flashlight, which is due to
quality materials (made of solid aluminum), long duration and intensity of the light beam quickly became very popular with the U.S. military, police and firefighters.Slide71
FRANJO KAJFEŽ
Martijanec 15. October, 1936. –
Zagreb, 23. April 2004.
Doctor of Chemical Sciences
The creator of the tablet ValiumSlide72
Valium tablet
The creator of the tablet
Valium, in
Croatia known as
Valium (a Paure – against fear).
The founder of the production
technology of vitamin C.
Plants are always interestedhim, and he was especiallyinterested in how they "draw" achemical version of the drugsubstance.Slide73
DANIEL GAJSKI
His research interests include embedded systems and information technology, design methodologies, specification languages and CAD software, and the science of design.
On January 10, 2010
.
,
the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) announced that the EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Dr. Daniel
Gajski
. This award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the state of the art in electronic design, automation and testing of electronic systems in their life.Slide74
TOMISLAV UZELAC
I
n 1997
.
Tomislav
Uzelac
, a
student of the Universty ofZagreb, Croatia, inventedthe AMP Playback Engine, thefirst successful MP3 player. Twostudents from the University of
Utah adapted it to work on
Windows, and called it
WinAMP
.Slide75
MARIN SOLJAČIĆ
A
uthor
of the new Wireless Power Transfer, conceived in 1996
.
Performed the first experiment not radiating wireless energy transfer, in which the electrical network using two coils two meters distant able to light the lamp of 60 WSlide76
They are created a new antibiotic - Sumamed
PLIVA TEAM
(SLOBODAN ĐOKIĆ, GORJANA RADOBOJA-LAZAREVSKI, ZRINKA TAMBURAŠEV, GABRIJELA KOBREHEL)Slide77
Sumamed
A group of researchers from
PLIVA has created a new
antibiotic at all different from
other previously applied
antibiotics. Because he was
special, he was given the name
Sumamed - "Sum sumarum
medicinae". In 1980. discovered
a formula of a chemicalcompound of azithromycinwhich proved to be highlyeffective in the therapeutictreatment of bacterialinfections.Slide78
Pay-by-phone parking
The service of buying parking
tickets via mobile phones is today
widespread worldwide.
The service has been conceived and developed in Croatia.Slide79
End something different, but very interesting and instructive
CROATIA IS THE HOMELAND OF TIESSlide80
TIE
The tie originated among
Croatian mercenaries during the Prussian wars of the 17th century: the Croat mercenaries used a scarf
around the neck to hold together the opening of their shirts. This was soon adopted (under the name
cravat,
derived from the French
for "Croat") by the upper classes in France, then a leader in fashion, and flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries.Slide81
AND FINALLY I MUST INTRODUCE YOU
WITH
ONE
OF
THE MOST FAMOUS
CROATIAN
INVENTOR FOR CHILDRENSlide82
Professor Balthazar
B
orn
in Zagreb in 1967
.
at the Zagreb
F
ilm
studio
. One of the most famous Croatian scientists.Professor Balthazar was a Croatian cartoon series for children about an old inventor that ran from 1967 to 1978. It was created by animator Zlatko Grgić.Slide83
CARTOON
If you want to see my presentation in one minute, I suggest that you look at the cartoon called
Croatian_Invention on vimeo by Dražen Željković
https://vimeo.com/66031930Slide84
Thank You !Slide85
Literature:
Wikipedia
, the free encyclopedia
http://www.croatianhistory.net
History
of croatian science