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Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Josip
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria–Hungary
- Place of birth
- Županići
- Place of death
- Trieste
- Occupation
- teacher
- Languages spoken
- German
- Notable work
- speedometer
- Image
- Belusic.png
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Josip Belušić” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.