The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Slovak Inventors of all time. This list of famous Slovak Inventors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
With an HPI of 61.57, Wolfgang von Kempelen is the most famous Slovak Inventor. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd (Hungarian: Kempelen Farkas; 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine.
With an HPI of 53.25, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala is the 2nd most famous Slovak Inventor. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (Croatian pronunciation: [slâʋɔʎuːb ɛ̂duard pɛŋkǎːla]; 20 April 1871 – 5 February 1922) was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Dutch-Polish descent.
With an HPI of 51.63, Aurel Stodola is the 3rd most famous Slovak Inventor. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Aurel Boleslav Stodola (11 May 1859 – 25 December 1942) was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor. He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book Die Dampfturbine (the steam turbine) in 1903. In addition to the thermodynamic issues involved in turbine design the book discussed aspects of fluid flow, vibration, stress analysis of plates, shells and rotating discs and stress concentrations at holes and fillets. Stodola was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute (now ETH) in Zurich. He maintained friendly contact with Albert Einstein. In 1892, Stodola founded the Laboratory for Energy Conversion.
With an HPI of 46.77, Jozef Murgaš is the 4th most famous Slovak Inventor. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Jozef Murgaš (English Joseph Murgas) (17 February 1864 – 11 May 1929) was a Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter and Roman Catholic priest. He contributed to radio development, which at the time was commonly known as "wireless telegraphy". Murgaš was nicknamed the Radio Priest and deemed a Renaissance man.
Pantheon has 4 people classified as inventors born between 1734 and 1871. Of these 4, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased inventors include Wolfgang von Kempelen, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, and Aurel Stodola.
1734 - 1804
HPI: 61.57
1871 - 1922
HPI: 53.25
1859 - 1942
HPI: 51.63
1864 - 1929
HPI: 46.77
Which Inventors were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Inventors since 1700.