(Hrvatski) Milan Lenuci

Sorry, this entry is only available in Croatian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Milan Lenuci (1849. – 1924.) najznačajniji je hrvatski urbanist i inženjer 19. stoljeća. Projektirao je Zelenu potkovu i postavio osnove urbanog razvoja … Saznaj više

(Hrvatski) Ivana Brlić Mažuranić

Sorry, this entry is only available in Croatian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Ivana Brlić Mažuranić pisala je priče za djecu. Dva puta predlagana je za Nobelovu nagradu, a nazivali su je  hrvatskim Andersenom. Najpoznatije … Saznaj više

Marko Polo

Korčula is the birthplace of Marko Polo, a famous traveller around the Far East. Did you know that the number ‘million’ is being related to Marko Polo? Returning from China, he was exaggerating in his descriptions and quantities so much that the numbers of the time were simply insufficient. The number 1,000,000 used to be … Saznaj više

(Hrvatski) Faust Vrančić

Sorry, this entry is only available in Croatian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. U Šibeniku je rođen Faust Vrančić, koji je zamislio i nacrtao padobran. U svojoj knjizi napisao je da ga je i isprobao! … Saznaj više

(Hrvatski) Slavoljub Penkala

Sorry, this entry is only available in Croatian. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Slavoljub Penkala bio je poznati inženjer koji je 1906. godine izumio mehaničku olovku, a 1907. godine i prvo nalivpero. Tvornica olovaka Zagreb … Saznaj više

Nikola Tesla

Tesla used to say that he was not an inventor but a ‘discoverer of things that exist in the nature around us’. He would first devise all of his experiments in his mind and then put them into practice. He stated that there were times when he could not distinguish between his imagination and the … Saznaj više