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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. 1,108,484. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Štefan Banič is the 308th most popular inventor (down from 295th in 2019), the 810th most popular biography from Austria (down from 778th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Štefan Banič ranks 308 out of 426. Before him are Oleg Losev, George Graham, Bernard Lown, Ivan Kulibin, Marion Donovan, and Walter Clopton Wingfield. After him are Wilhelm Bauer, Paul von Jankó, Wilson Greatbatch, Abraham Darby I, Whitcomb L. Judson, and Rostislav Alexeyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Štefan Banič ranks 121. Before him are Emil Młynarski, Amado Nervo, Hans Baluschek, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Jędrzej Moraczewski, and Lars Sonck. After him are Jan Šrámek, Grigory Gershuni, Hisashi Kimura, Verner Järvinen, Lilian Gibbs, and Bautista Saavedra. Among people deceased in 1941, Štefan Banič ranks 143. Before him are Jin Shuren, Helen Morgan, Leo Deutsch, Anton Reichenow, Chris Watson, and Franciszek Kleeberg. After him are Afife Jale, Hugo Strauß, Louis Brandeis, Sueo Ōe, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, and Nikolai Gastello.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Štefan Banič ranks 810 out of 1,424. Before him are Walter Berry (1929), Baron Ignaz von Plener (1810), Erika Mahringer (1924), Othmar Schneider (1928), Herbert W. Franke (1927), and Caroline Unger (1803). After him are Aloys Sprenger (1813), Karl Stotz (1927), Mia May (1884), Helene von Druskowitz (1856), Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller (1683), and Richard Bergmann (1919).

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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), Gaston Glock (1929), and Viktor Schauberger (1885).

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