Jan Szczepanik

Jan Szczepanik

Jan Szczepanik (born April 13, 1872 in Rudniki (near Mostyska), Ukraine - April 18, died 1926 in Tarnów, Poland) was a Polish inventor.

Szczepanik held several hundred patents and made over 50 discoveries, many of which are still used today, especially in the motion picture industry, photography, and television.

Some of his ideas influenced the development of television, such as the telectroscope (an apparatus for distant reproduction of images and sound using electricity) or the wireless telegraph, which greatly influenced the development of telecommunications.

Szczepanik was granted awards by royal courts. Spanish ruler Alfonso XIII awarded him an order for creating a bullet-proof fabric, whereas Emperor Franz Josef I relieved him from mandatory military service, and, fascinated with a photosculptor (apparatus for copying sculptures), gave him a pair of pistols as a souvenir.

Before World War I, Szczepanik carried out experiments with photography and image projection, as well as with small format color film. He holds patents for a new weaving method, a system of obtaining tri-color photography rasters, and equipment for sound recording and playback.

Following the discoverer's idea, Agfa corporation produced its Agfacolor reversible paper; color films were also made for the first time, projecting 24 frames per second. Szczepanik's more significant discoveries also include the colorimeter (a color control tool), an electric rifle, and a color image weaving method, together with the automation of their production.

Szczepanik also worked on a moving wing aircraft, a duplex rotor helicopter, a dirigible, and a submarine.

Mark Twain met Szczepanik and described him in two of his articles: [http://histv2.free.fr/szczepanik/twain1.htm "The Austrian Edison keeping school again"] (1898) and [http://histv2.free.fr/szczepanik/twainlt1.htm "From the London Times of 1904"] (1898).

References

* [http://www.poland.gov.pl/Jan,Szczepanik:,Polish,Edison,1986.html entry at Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs website]
*pl icon Andrzej Pilipiuk, " [http://andrzej.pilipiuk.w.interia.pl/dane/geniusz.html Zapomniany geniusz] "

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