Jan Szczepanik

Inventor

1872 – 1926

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Who was Jan Szczepanik?

Jan Szczepanik was a Polish inventor, with several hundred patents and over 50 discoveries to his name, many of which are still applied today, especially in the motion picture industry, as well as in photography and television. Some of his concepts helped the future evolution of TV broadcasting, such as the telectroscope or the wireless telegraph, which greatly affected the development of telecommunications. He died in Tarnów in the reborn Second Polish Republic.

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Born
Jun 13, 1872
Austrian Partition
Also known as
  • Щепаник, Ян
Died
Apr 18, 1926
Tarnów

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on July 23, 2013

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