Franjo Hanaman
Croatian engineer and inventor
Died when: 62 years 207 days (750 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Franjo Hanaman (June 30, 1878 – January 23, 1941) 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.
Franjo Hanaman was born in the village of Drenovci in Slavonia (at the time Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary) to a Croatian family as a second child of father Gjuro Hanaman and Emilija Mandušic.
Just and Hanaman were granted the Hungarian Patent #34541 on December 13, 1904 in Budapest.His invention of tungsten filament was also applied in improving early diodes and triodes.
He died in Zagreb (at the time Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
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