CROATIA Presentation Ante Šupuk

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ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

WHO WAS HE?  a Croatian engineer and inventor  also a mayor of Šibenik  in 1895 he built 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.

PERSONAL LIFE  in 1870 entered the House of Representatives as a representative of the foreign municipalities of Šibenik  in 1873 managed to become the first mayor of a Croatian party in Šibenik

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

HIS INVENTION  in 1895 made the first hydropower plant in the world one year before Nikola Tesla's famous power plant on the Niagara falls

 the power plant is on the falls of river Krka  because of that Šibenik became the third city on the planet with public lighting

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

HIS INVENTION  the power plant is named „Jaruga I”, and after some time he built „Jaruga II”

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

AS A MAYOR  held the office in three periods  in 1879 a railroad, waterworks, a sewer system, and a new harbor were completed

 a new hospital building was completed in 1883

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

SOURCE From web:

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https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_%C5%A0upuk

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http://mok.hr/vijesti/item/13062-175-godisnjica-rodenja-ante-supuka-sjecanjena-oca-modernog-sibenika

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http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/et22a.html

4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaruga_Hydroelectric_Power_Plant

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE