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Zuzana Košelová
3.D
GJAR
* The Slovak Academy of Sciences has been the
most important scientific and research
institution in the country since 1953
* primary mission is to acquire new
knowledge of nature, society and technology
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* Air Force officer
* became the first Slovak citizen to fly in space
(Eugen Čerňan - the last man to visit the Moon
– Slovak origin, but American nationality )
* participated in an eight-day joint Russian-
French-Slovak mission to the Mir space station
in 1999
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* engineer, physicist, and inventor
* published his book Die Dampfturbine (the
steam turbine) 1903, Steam and Gas Turbines
* One of his students was Albert Einstein
* founded the Laboratory for Energy Conversion
* worked closely with industries on the
development of the first practical gas turbines
* Known for technical thermodynamics
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* devised a military parachute, the first
parachute ever deployed in actual use
* tested it in Washington, D.C.
* jumping first from a 15-storey building and
subsequently from an airplane in 1914.
* Banič's invention is a radically different type of
a parachute from the type known today
* he helped to explore the Driny karst cave (in
CSK, after WW1)
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* inventor and engineer
* specialised in military science, military construction, and
engineering
* Flying machines were a particular interest of his
* In 1895, he was granted a patent on the helicopter (1 500 m)
* financed his first invention himself - Steam Tank - purchased
by the Russian army
* granted seventeen patents (the tank pump, a hot air balloon)
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* Inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot,
and Roman Catholic priest
* contributed to wireless telegraphy
* develop mobile communications - wireless
transmission of information and human voice
* nicknamed the Radio Priest
* the Jozef Murgaš Award
* (1864–1929)
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozef_Murga%C5%A1
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_Academy_of_Sci
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bella
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Cernan
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n_Bah%C3%BD%
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0tefan_Bani%C4%
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Stodola
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