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Fausto Veranzio (Latin:
Faustus Verantius; Croatian:
Faust Vrančić;
Hungarian and
Vernacular Latin:
Verancsics Faustus; c. 1551 – 20
January 1617) was...
- Vrančić or
Antonio Veranzio (30 May 1504 – 15 June 1573; Lat.
Antonius Vrancius, Wrancius,
Verantius iWerantius, It.
Antonio Veranzio, Hung. Verancsics...
- "the
parachute as we know it." The
Croatian polymath and
inventor Fausto Veranzio, or
Faust Vrančić (1551–1617),
examined da Vinci's
parachute sketch and...
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ended 14
January 1568
Predecessor George Martinuzzi Successor Antonio Veranzio Other post(s)
Bishop of Eger
Personal details Born 10
January 1493 Nagyszeben...
- were
found in
Machinae Novae, a book by Croatian-Venetian
inventor Fausto Veranzio. Many
early suspension bridges were cable-sta**** construction, including...
- delta.
Advanced wind
turbines were
described by
Croatian inventor Fausto Veranzio in his book
Machinae Novae (1595). He
described vertical axis wind turbines...
- word was
first recorded in a 16th-century
dictionary compiled by
Fausto Veranzio as a
Croatian term for the
Latin word princeps.
According to
Vladimir Anić's...
- decades. The
earliest mention is by the
Bishop of Csanád County,
Fausto Veranzio, who was also an engineer. He
wrote in his 1616 book
Machinae novae about...
- carrying-hauling rope. The
first recorded mechanical ropeway was by
Croatian Fausto Veranzio who
designed a
bicable p****enger
ropeway in 1616. The world's
first cable...
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widely considered to be one of the most
dangerous extreme sports.
Fausto Veranzio is
widely believed to have been the
first person to
build and test a parachute...
