Franjo Hannaman
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Franjo Hanaman (born June 30, 1878 in Drenovci near Županja, Austria-Hungary – died January 23, 1941 in Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Croatia today).
Franjo Hanaman was born in Croatian family as a second child of father Gjuro Hanaman and Emilija Mandušić.[1] He was a Croatian inventor, engineer, and chemist, who gained world recognition for inventing the world's first applied electric light-bulb with a metal filament (tungsten) with his assistant Aleksandar Just, independently of his contemporaries. They were granted the Hungarian Patent #34541 on December 13th, 1904 on Budapest.[2] His invention of tungsten filament was also applied in improoving early diodes and triodes.
