ANTE Å UPUK Vedran momirski 4.Bk
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
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaruga_Hydroelectric_Power_Plant
ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE