* 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 * * 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 * * 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 * * 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) * * 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) * * 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) * * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozef_Murga%C5%A1 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_Academy_of_Sci ences * 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% C4%BE * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0tefan_Bani%C4% 8D * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Stodola * *