Petrache Poenaru
Physicist, Inventor
1799 – 1875
Who was Petrache Poenaru?
Petrache Poenaru was a Romanian inventor of the Enlightenment era.
Poenaru, who had studied in Paris and Vienna and, later, completed his specialized studies in England, was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, teacher and organizer of the educational system, as well as a politician, agronomist, and zootechnologist, founder of the Philharmonic Society, the Botanical Gardens and the National Museum of Antiquities in Bucharest.
While a student in Paris, Petrache Poenaru invented the world's first fountain pen, an invention for which the French Government issued a patent on 25 May 1827.
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- Born
- Jan 10, 1799
Nicolae Bălcescu, Vâlcea - Nationality
- Romania
- Wallachia
- Profession
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Died
- Oct 2, 1875
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on July 23, 2013
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