INVENTOR

Štefan Banič

1870 - 1941

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Štefan Banič (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʂcefam ˈbaɲitʂ]; 23 November 1870 – 2 January 1941) was a Slovak inventor who patented an early parachute design. Born in Jánostelek (Slovak: Neštich, Smolenická Nová Ves), Austria-Hungary (now Smolenická Nová Ves, a part of Smolenice, Slovakia), Banič immigrated to the United States and worked as a coal miner in Greenville, Pennsylvania. After witnessing a plane crash in 1912, Banič constructed a prototype of a parachute, and on August 25, 1914 was granted US patent, No. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Štefan Banič has received more than 82,603 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Štefan Banič is the 295th most popular inventor (down from 276th in 2019), the 777th most popular biography from Austria (down from 689th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Štefan Banič ranks 295 out of 426. Before him are Kenjiro Takayanagi, Ivan Kulibin, Alexander P. de Seversky, Alexandre Alexeieff, Jacob Ellehammer, and Henry M. Leland. After him are Rowland Hill, George Graham, Henry Shrapnel, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, William Justin Kroll, and Wilhelm Bauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Štefan Banič ranks 113. Before him are Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Henri Jaspar, Lars Sonck, Hans Baluschek, Albert Meyer, and Jędrzej Moraczewski. After him are Elizabeth Hesselblad, José María Moncada, Jan Šrámek, Max Berg, Grigory Gershuni, and Emil Młynarski. Among people deceased in 1941, Štefan Banič ranks 145. Before him are Jin Shuren, Franciszek Kleeberg, Karl Neukirch, Chris Watson, Paul von Hintze, and Lev Dovator. After him are Fred Karno, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Fritz Noether, Penelope Delta, Ibrahim Tuqan, and Tom Phillips.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Štefan Banič ranks 777 out of 1,424. Before him are Siegmund von Hausegger (1872), Hilda Geiringer (1893), René Wellek (1903), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), Ursula Ledóchowska (1865), and Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma (1909). After him are Daniel Gran (1694), Bruno de Finetti (1906), Herma Szabo (1902), Albert Ehrenstein (1886), Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897), and Annemarie Selinko (1914).

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Among INVENTORS In Austria

Among inventors born in Austria, Štefan Banič ranks 5. Before him are Gaston Glock (1929), Robert Adler (1913), Georg Luger (1849), and Viktor Schauberger (1885).

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