Franjo Hanaman (June 30, 1878 – January 23, 1941) was a Croatian inventor, engineer, and chemist, who gained world recognition for inventing the world's first applied electriclight-bulb with a metalfilament (tungsten) with his assistantAlexander Just, independently of his contemporaries.
Franjo Hanaman was born in the village ofDrenovci inSlavonia (at the timeKingdom of Croatia-Slavonia,Austria-Hungary) to aCroatian family as a second child of father Gjuro Hanaman and Emilija Mandušić.[1]
Hanaman and Just were granted the Hungarian Patent #34541 on December 13, 1904 inBudapest.[2] His invention of tungsten filament was also applied in improving earlydiodes andtriodes.
He died inZagreb (at the timeKingdom of Yugoslavia).
