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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Serie: 96, Type: P, Stamps in serie: 2 Slavoljub Penkala Faust Vrančić (b. Šibenik 1551-d. Venice 1617), was a typical Renaissance "homo universalis". A notable scholar whose interest comprised mathematics, physics, phylosophy and technology, he spent some time on the court of the German emperor Rudolf II who was also the sovereign to the Croats, Hungarians, and Czechs. His major work was "Machine Novae" (New Machines), printed in Venice at the beginning of the 18 cent., with the pictorial (49 etchings) and textual descriptions of 56 different technical constructions. He had anticipated the numerous technical inventions which were to be applied later to water or wind powered machines, to mills, ships, boats and excavators. The second invention is the "mechanical pencil" whose variant can be found in the pockets of our contemporaries. Both the technical pencil and the fountain pen were invented by the engineer Eduard Penkala (b. Liptovsky, sv. Mikulas 1871-d. Zagreb 1919). A typical homo faber of the industrial age, he settled in Zagreb at the beginning of the century. He set up a chemical laboratory and workshops, where he invented and patented about 80 chemistry, mechanical and aviation devices. He was an extremely talented and innovative person, the first to record in 1909, the opera and operetta airs on a gramophone record, He was an amateur pilot and constructed his own aeroplane in 1910. In 1906 he patented a mechanical pencil in Budapest and started its largescale production in various shapes and sizes in Zagreb, shortly after. Penkala soon became a synonym and brand name for the mechanical pencil, the real forerunner of the modern types of technical pencils and pens. |
| Face value | 4000 HRD |
| Catalog code (Michel) | HR 275 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number HR 191 Yvert et Tellier HR 227 Stanley Gibbons HR 275 AFA number HR 291 Croatian post Inc. HR 97 Unificato HR 235 |
| Series | Croatian famous people |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 500,000 |
| Issue date | 16/05/1994 |
| Designer | Hrvoje Šercar |
| Paper type | white 90g, gummed |
| Print technique | Multicoloured Offsetprint |
| Printed by | Zrinski - Čakovec |
| Perforation | 14, comb |
| Height | 29.82 mm |
| Width | 35.50 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
