PricewaterhouseCoopers Slovakia asked me to illustrate a calendar of the most significant figures in Slovak history. Thanks to their inventions, discoveries and achievements, many of these people also became famous beyond Slovakia.
Ján Dopjera inventor of the resonator guitar
Štefan Banič invention of parachute
Samuel Mikovíni designer of a water management system for mines
Vojtech Alexander founder of plastic roentgenology
Ľudmila Pajdušáková astronomer, comet discoverer
Ján Bahýľ constructor of a predecessor of the helicopter
Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen creator of a chess-playing automaton
Ernest Florens Fredrich Chladny founder of modern acoustics
Dušan Jurkovič considered to be the first Slovak architect
Bohumil Vančo constructor of the stereoscopic device for large format images
Milan Antal astronomer
Móric August Beňovský adventurer, traveller, writer and the King of Madagascar
Pavol Olexík
pioneer in botanical genetics
Aurel Stodola constructor of steam turbines
Andrej Kmeť discoverer of the Slovak mammoth
Jozef Maximilián Petzval founder of modern photograph
Jozef Murgaš improvements to wireless telegraphy
Ladislav Hudec designer of the first multi-storey building in Shanghai
Mária Bellová the first Slovak physician
Matej Bel polymath, ‘the Great Adornment of Hungary’
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