Inventors
- Alojz Knafelc (1859–1937), the creator of Slovenian trail blaze.
- Janez Puh (German Johann Puch) (1862–1914) – inventor, innovator, industrial designer and manufacturer.
- Janez Auguštin Puhar (1814–1864) – priest, photographer, painter and poet – invented a photography on the glass in 1842.
- Herman Potočnik – Noordung (1892–1929), one of the founders of astronautics.
- Edvard Rusjan (1886–1911) – pilot and aeronautic pioneer.
- Richard Fuisz (b 1939) – pharmaceutical inventor of controlled release drug beads, quick dissolve tablet systems, thin film drug delivery systems as well as various medical devices, diagnostic devices and electronic mail patents.
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Famous quotes containing the word inventors:
“They will call you the annihilators of morals: but you are simply the inventors of yourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)