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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 78,054 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Štefan Banič is the 276th most popular inventor (down from 271st in 2019), the 693rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 112th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Štefan Banič ranks 276 out of 354. Before him are Joseph Aspdin, Lester Allan Pelton, Adolf Martens, Alexander P. de Seversky, L. L. Langstroth, and Edward Lawry Norton. After him are Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Paul von Jankó, John Wilkinson, Thomas Wedgwood, Ivan Kulibin, and André Blondel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Štefan Banič ranks 106. Before him are Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Magnus Enckell, Dirk Jan de Geer, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Amado Nervo, and Hans Baluschek. After him are Sascha Schneider, Lars Sonck, Emil Młynarski, Henri Jaspar, Jędrzej Moraczewski, and Grigory Gershuni. Among people deceased in 1941, Štefan Banič ranks 118. Before him are Mario García Menocal, Friedrich Akel, Pavel Filonov, Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Wilhelm Kienzl, and Rudolf Ramek. After him are George Abraham Grierson, Yakov Smushkevich, Dimitrios Golemis, Franciszek Kleeberg, Karl Neukirch, and Fritz Manteuffel.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Štefan Banič ranks 693 out of 1,237. Before him are Harald Reinl (1908), Theodore Bikel (1924), Karl Markovics (1963), Egon Wellesz (1885), Wlodimir Ledóchowski (1866), and Ernst Stojaspal (1925). After him are Ulrich Seidl (1952), Tina Blau (1845), Gerda Lerner (1920), Josef Abel (1764), Alfred Körner (1926), and İlber Ortaylı (1947).

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Among INVENTORS In Austria

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

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