Let’s discover each day a Romanian inventor thanks to a project of the Agency for Governmental Strategies, supported by the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks and the General Association of Engineers in Romania. PETRACHE POENARU (1799-1875) - Fountain pen. Graduating from Polytechnic School of Paris, Petrache Poenaru become famous for his invention of the fountain pen in 1827. The ’’Endless self-supplying ink pen’’ as he called it, was patented in Vienna and Paris and soon became largely used by millions. As a professor, Petrache Poenaru founded the National Colleges in Bucharest and Craiova and in 1883 supported the founding of higher mathematics, mechanics, architecture, geodesy, agriculture and forestry studies in Wallachia (Tara Romaneasca). Petrache Poenaru also organized, in 1836, the first systematical weather survey service in Bucharest, measuring air humidity, temperature and pressure.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:44:08 +0000
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