Franjo Hanaman by Marina Zorić Trgovačka škola, Zagreb ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE
INTRODUCTION born 1878 in Drenovci died 1941 in Zagreb Croatian inventor, engineer, and chemist
electric light-bulb with a metal filament (tungsten)
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EARLY LIFE born in Drenovci, Slavonia, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary 1887 finished school in Brčko 1895 graduated in Zemun
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UNIVERSITY studied in Vienna and Berlin was an assistant at the Technical College in Vienna
became a professor of chemical technology and metallurgy at the Faculty of
Engineering in Zagreb
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HIS INVENTION - THE FILAMENT LIGHT BULB by Franjo Hanaman and his assistant Alexander Just 1903 patented in Vienna full name: Verfahren zur Herstellung von
Glühlkörpern aus Wolfram or Molybdän für elektrische Glühlampen his bulbs used less electricity
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HIS INVENTION - THE FILAMENT LIGHT BULB
1904 in Budapest - Hungarian Patent #34541 the invention of tungsten filament was also
applied in improving early diodes and triodes produced in the USA where he met Tesla
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INTERESTING FACTS 1922 selected as full professor of inorganic chemical technology
and metallurgy from 1939: the head of the Department of Mining and
Metallurgy of the Faculty of Engineering the editor-in-chief of the „Archive for Chemistry and
Technology” buried at Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb
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INTERESTING FACTS popular among friends for his good nature
played tamburica a friend of Stjepan Radic author of the first specialist schoolbooks for his students loved sports – hiking, hunting, swimming, rowing, skiing
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in front of the Technical Museum in Zagreb
REFERENCES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franjo_Hanaman http://genius-croatia.com/dt_portfolio/franjo-hanaman/ https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franjo_Hanaman
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