1) The document discusses several important inventions from Romanian inventors that changed the world, including the first fountain pen invented by Petrache Poenaru in 1827, foundations of cybernetics laid by Stefan Odobleja in 1941, and discovery of insulin by Nicolae Constantin Paulescu in 1922. 2) Another key Romanian invention discussed is the jet engine, invented in 1910 by Henri Marie Coanda, who was also a pioneer in aviation and aerodynamics. 3) Additional Romanian inventors and inventions mentioned include Aurel Persu designing the first car with wheels inside the aerodynamic line in 1922-1923, and Anghel Saligny designing the longest bridge in Europe,

1. Student: Sburlan Simona Georgiana
Grupa 8202
Romanian Inventions That
Changed The World
Profesor coordonator:Mihai Daniel
Frumuselu
Universitatea de Stiinte Agronomice si
Medicina Veterinara Bucuresti
Facultatea de Management,Inginerie
Economica in Agricultura si Dezvoltare
Rurala

2. The ingenuity and resourcefulness of the Romanian people can not
be underestimated. Their curious nature and renowned education
system has produced some great inventors.
From the beginning Romanians have been doing things first –
including the first recorded human settlement in Europe through to
the earliest recorded salt mines 6050BC.
Although a small country, there has been a number of Romanian
inventions that have changed the world. You will be amazed that
you have never heard of these inventors.

3. THE FOUNTAIN PEN
The first fountain pen was invented by Romanian Petrache
Poenaru (1799-1875)
Petrache Poenaru’s invention was patented in May 1827 on 25
May by the French Government.
Poenaru invented the world`s first fountain pen while he was a
student in Paris.
He was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, teacher and
organizer of the educational system.

4. He was as well a politician, agronomist and zoo technologist,
founder of the Philharmonic Society, the Botanical Gardens and the
National Museum of Antiquities in Bucharest.
The fountain pen was not Poenaru’s only achievement, as he also
designed the national flag of Romania.

5. CYBERNETICS
Stefan Odobleja (1902-1978) laid the foundations of Cybernetics in
1941.
Stefan Odobleja is the creator of psycho cybernetics and the father
of generalized cybernetics.
He started by creating a cybernetic model which he began from
observations, intuition and rationality.
Though everything was used (as we know) ten years later, in the
American literature by Norbert Wiener.
Odobleja’s work is very important as it had been used and applied
in many scientific fields.

6. His remarkable and amazing value was discussed and
acknowledged all over the world with statements like:
“You have a golden man, he deserves a golden
statue”.

7. INSULIN
Nicolae Constantin Paulescu (1869-1931) discovered insulin in 1922.
Though his recognition for this is still controversial due to his private beliefs on
Jewish people.
The entire thing prevented him from receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923 or making
his scientific skills acknowledged in any way.
In 1971, Ian Murray, a professor of physiology at the Anderson College of
Medicine in Glasgow, Scotland as well as the head of the department of
Metabolic Diseases at a leading Glasgow hospital, vice-president of the British
Association of Diabetes, and a founding member of the International Diabetes
Federation, tried in correcting “the historical wrong” against Nicolae Constantin
Paulescu

8. He said that Nicolae Constantin Paulescu received insufficient
recognition and that he was equally worthy of the award (Nobel
Prize in 1923).
About all this and more, professor Murray wrote in an article in the
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.

9. THE JET ENGINE
Henri Marie Coanda invented the jet engine in 1910.
He was a Romanian inventor in aerodynamics and the builder of an
experimental aircraft.
He was as well an engineer and a pioneer in aviation.
Coandă-1910 airplane Coandă-1910 airplane with the
compressor on separate display

10. Between 1911 and 1914, he worked as technical manager of the
Bristol Aeroplane Company in the United Kingdom, where he
designed several aeroplanes known as the Bristol-Coanda
Monoplanes. In 1912 one of these aircraft won a prize at the British
Military Aeroplane Competition.
1912 Bristol-
Coanda
monoplane

11. The first car to have the wheels inside its aerodynamic line, which
we take for granted today was designed by Romanian engineer
Aurel Persu, in 1922–1923.
Anghel Saligny, Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the
Feteşti-Cernavodă railway bridge (1895) over the Danube, the
longest bridge in Europe at that time, planned and built the first
silos in the world made of reinforced concrete.

12. OTHER INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ROMANIA
 1858 - Bucharest - the first city in the world that was illuminated
by oil and the first oil refinery
 1880 – Dumitru Vasescu - build a car with steam engine
 1886 - Alexander Ciurcu - built the first jet boat
 1895 - D. Hurmuzescu - discover electroscope

13. CONCLUSION
I think that Romania and her great inventors had an important role
in the evolution of the technology, creative and innovative,
Romanian inventors have successfully contributed to the world
development.