Good morning, Mr. Tesla On July 10, 1856, in Smiljian, today's Croatia, a great engineer was born, author of nearly 300 patents that protected his 125 inventions in 26 countries. Tesla was the constructor of many devices for the production and use of alternating current, successfully competing with Thomas Edison, who worked on the properties and application of direct current. Even people who are not interested in technological thought use the good of: electric motor and alternator, bicycle dynamo, radio, what is more, hydroelectric power plant (eg. at Niagara Falls) or solar battery are also Tesla inventions. Although we usually know less details about autotransformer, disk turbine or Tesla transformer, these are the milestones of the technique made by Nikola Tesla, the creator of the first remote radio devices, for which in 1916 he was awarded the Edison Medal "for outstanding achievements in early works over multiphase and high frequency current. Why, however, am I addressing this article to you? On Monday, in the early morning, five students and two teachers from the First High School at the School Complex for Educational Institutions named after capt. hm. Andrzej Romocki "Morro", set off on a trip to Zagreb as part of the Erasmus + project "Inventors and innovators - our heritage and our future". During the exchange, as part of the project, they will go to Smiljan, where Tesla was born, visit the Museum named after him and the Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb. These young people, for the second year, go abroad through foreign trips to learn and learn about the great inventors of technology in the world. During the school year, they learn in particular the achievements of Polish inventors and innovators, preparing multimedia presentations, posters about them, and participate in workshops devoted to patent law and copyrights. During the second project exchange, this time organized in Zagreb on 1-6.October 2018, the materials prepared by them will be presented in English to their partner schools peers from Zagreb, Stockholm, Freiburg and Thessaloniki. They will present this time: Kazimierz Funk - the creator of the science of vitamins, which first distinguished vitamin B, and introduced the term vitamin; Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski - a physicist, pioneer of cryogenics. In 1883, in Kraków together with K. Olszewski, he condensed air; Kazimierz Prószyński - a pioneer of cinema and cinematography, who during his studies in Belgium created his first pleograph - a hand camera for recording and playing films; Stefan Drzewiecki - whose achievements include regulator of steam and hydraulic engines, automatic wagon coupler, train speed recorder, dromograph - device automatically plotting the course of the sailing ship (1873), first use of the periscope, first electric submarine powered by batteries (1888), propeller with adjustable blades, aircraft with automatic stabilizing device or aerodynamic tunnel; and Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist and sociologist who created the basics of functionalist theory and the so-called British social anthropology, introduced a new style of field work, which was a longlasting and deep contact with the studied community instead of the current method of text analysis.
Students from grade 2 LOa, Wiktoria Bednarska, Aleksandra Palus, Weronika Zwierzchowska, Adam Dziekoński and Dawid Bola are leaving for exchange, and the teachers Mrs. Małgorzata Blezień-Lach and Ms. Marzena Lewandowska.
We wish the Polish team a safe flight and enjoyable new experiences and impressions Project coordinator Monika Jagiełło-Trif and the School Management