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Croatian inventor

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Born
( 1847-03-12 ) 12 March 1847 , Županići , Illyria , Austrian Empire
Died
8 January 1905 (1905-01-08) (aged 57) , Austria-Hungary
Alma mater
University of Vienna
Occupation
Inventor
Known for
Inventing the speedometer

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Instance of
human
Given name
Josip
Gender
male
Place of birth
Županići
Place of death
Trieste
Occupation
teacher
Languages spoken
German
Notable work
speedometer
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date of birth
1847-03-12
date of death
1905-01-08
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Josip Belušić
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Josip Belušić
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Encyclopedic overview

Josip Belušić ( Serbo-Croatian: [josip beluʃitɕ]; 12 March 1847 – 8 January 1905) was a Croatian inventor. He was born in the small settlement of Županići, in the region of Labin, Istria, and schooled in Pazin and Koper. Belušić continued his studies in Vienna, later resettling in Trieste before coming back to Istria, where he built his best known invention, the speedometer. After completing his studies, Belušić was employed as a professor of physics and mathematics at the Royal School of Koper. Later, he became director of the Maritime School of Castelnuovo, and was employed as an assistant professor in that institution.

In 1887 Belušić publicly experimented for the first time with his new invention, an electric speedometer. The invention was patented in Austria-Hungary under the name of Velocimeter.

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