Famous inventors in Poland

Hi :) I'm writing about famous inventors in Poland.

Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822-1882) was a
Polish-Armenian pharmacistand petroleum industry
pioneer. He built the first oil refinery in the world.
He’s famous for the inventionof the modern street
lamp in Europe.Thanks to his inventions he became
a wealthy man and one of the most prominent
philanthropists.

Kazimierz Prószczyński (1875-1945)was a Polish
invector active in the field of cinema.He patented his
first film camera called Pleograph. Later he went on
to improve the cinema projector for the Gaumont
company. He also invented the widely used hond-
held Aeroscope camera. 





Henryk Zygalski (1908- 1978) was a Polish
mathematician  and cryptologist who worked Marian
Rejewski  and Jerzy Różycki.Together they developed
the methods and equipment for breaking the Enigma
coded messages.
After the war he remained in exile in the United Kingdom.
He was prevented by the Official Sectets Act
from speaking of his achievments in cytology.


Stefan Drzewiecki (1844-1938) was a Polish
scientist, journalist, engineer,constuctor and inventor
working in Russia and France. He invented such
useful tools as the kilometric counter for cabs. He
constructed an instrument that drew the precise
routes of ships into a map. He developed the theory
of guiding flights. His work “Theorie generalede
l’helice” was honored by the French Academy of Science.

Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859-1917) was an
ophthalmologist, philologist and the inventor of
Esperanto, a constructed language designed for
international communication. For two years he
tried to raise funds to publish a booklet decribing
the language. Zamenhof wrote the first
grammar of the Yiddish language. Later he published the Yiddish magazine “Lebn
un visnshaft”. He translated the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament into Esperanto. Zamenhof was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by four British Members of Parliament and
Professor Stanley Lane Poole.

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