Eduard Slavoljub Penkala

Collection title

Vijesti iz kulture

ID

HRT00101

Source

HRT (HR)

First broadcast date

01/24/2006

Production year

2006

Abstract

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (20 April 1871 – 5 February 1922) was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Polish-Jewish and Dutch ethnicity. Eduard Penkala was born in Liptovský Mikuláš (in what is now Slovakia), to Franciszek Pękała, who was of Polish heritage, and Maria Pękała (née Hannel), who was of Dutch heritage. He attended the University of Vienna and Technische Universität Dresden, graduating from the latter in 1898 and going on to earn a doctorate in organic chemistry. He then moved with his wife and family to Zagreb (which was then in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, also part of Austria-Hungary) and subsequently added "Slavoljub" (the equivalent of slavophile) to his name, becoming a naturalized Croat. He became renowned for further development of the mechanical pencil (1906), then called an "automatic pencil", and the first solid-ink fountain pen (1907). Collaborating with an entrepreneur by the name of Edmund Moster, he started the Penkala-Moster Company and built a pen-and-pencil factory that was one of the biggest in the world at the time. This company, now called TOZ-Penkala, still exists today. TOZ stands for "Tvornica olovaka Zagreb", which means "Zagreb pencil factory".

Type

video

Production companies

• HRT - Own production

Broadcaster

HRT - HRT

Audiovisual form

News

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Secondary themes

• Economy / Techniques and technologies

Credits / Cast

• Šegedin Miriovsky Sanja - Journalist
• Sokolović Zlatko - Photographer

Period of events

• 2006

Map locations

• Croatia - Central Croatia - Zagreb

Original language

croatian

Media running time

2m5