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Franjo Hanaman

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Croatian engineer and inventor (1878-1941)

ScientistsLived 1878 to 1941 · aged 62
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Franjo Hanaman was a Croatian inventor, engineer, and chemist, who gained world recognition for inventing the world's first applied electric light-bulb with a metal filament (tungsten) with his assistant Alexander Just, independently of his contemporaries.

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Franjo Hanaman (seated) and Alexander JustFranjo Hanaman (seated) and Alexander JustRight an Just-Hanaman light-bulb, Budapest, 1906.Right an Just-Hanaman light-bulb, Budapest, 1906.

Scientists born in the 1870s 6

Aleksandr Skochinsky38.6Andrea Angel38.5Václav Melzer38.6Emilio Chiovenda38.5Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde38.7Vladimir Artsikhovski38.4

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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1878 to 1941 · aged 62
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