HOORAY FOR OUR....... HERO !!!! Petrache Poenaru 1799-1875 The founder of the "endless self-supporting supplying ink pen" THINGS ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD Born in 1799, Poenaru was an engineer and mathematician who was concerned about national education...
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HOORAY FOR OUR....... HERO !!!! Petrache Poenaru 1799-1875 The founder of the "endless self-supporting supplying ink pen" THINGS ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD Born in 1799, Poenaru was an engineer and mathematician who was concerned about national education organization, but he is recognized worldwide for the frame tank that he invented. FACTS ABOUT HIS LIFE Graduating from Polytechnic School in Paris, Petrache Peonaru become gamous for his invention of the fountain pen in 1827. The " endless self-supporting supplying ink pen" as he called it, was patented in Vienna and PAris and soon became largely used by millions. As a professor , Petrache Poenaru founded the National Colleges in Bucharest and Craiova and in 1833 supported the founding of higher mathematics , mechanics, architecture , geodesy, agriculture and forestry studies in Wallachia Petrache Poenaru also organized in 1836 the first systematical weather survey service in Bucharest , measuring the air humisity, temperature and pressure. H
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