Ján Bahýľ

Ján Bahýľ ( born May 25, 1856 in Slatina Zvolenska, † March 13, 1916 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak engineer, inventor and designer, he received a patent in 1895 for a helicopter.

Life

Ján Bahýľ was born in Slatina Zvolenska, then Kingdom of Hungary. He attended high school in Zvolen, 1869 he graduated from the Mining and Forestry Academy in Schemnitz and joined after the Hungarian armed forces to. There they became aware of his talent and recommended him to the imperial To visit Military Technical Academy in Vienna, from which he graduated in 1879 with the rank of lieutenant and the professional title kuk Mil. - building champion. Then Bahýľ worked as a civil engineer in the Kingdom of Hungary and filed several patents. He married in 1892 in Pressburg Rozalia Schwanzerová from this marriage the daughters of Frida and Wilhelmina and his son Gustav. Bahýľ died in 1916 in Pressburg and found the cemetery Kozia brána his final resting place.

Inventions

In 1897 he led a helicopter first flight tests on Námestie slobody by. Bahýľ was known primarily for his filed on August 13, 1895 patent (No. 3392 ) for a helicopter. On May 5, 1905 flew a helicopter developed by him in Bratislava for 1.5 km at a height of 4 m. Probably, these were but a " unmanned model " with a weight of about 50 kg.

Trivia

After Ján Bahýľ was in May 2000, who discovered by the Slovak astronomer Peter Kušnirák, Asteroid ( 26640 ) Bahýľ named. The Slovak Patent and Trademark Office (IPO SR ) awards every two years Jána Bahýľ Award for extraordinary inventions.