12 Facts About Ivan Puluj

Ivan Puluj's contributions were largely neglected until the end of the 20th century.

Ivan Puluj graduated with honors from Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna, later from the Department of Philosophy.

Ivan Puluj taught at the Navy academy in Fiume, University of Vienna and the Imperial-Royal German Technical University in Prague.

Ivan Puluj worked as a state adviser on electrical engineering for Bohemian and Moravian local governments.

Ivan Puluj did heavy research into cathode rays, publishing several papers about those rays between 1880 and 1882.

Ivan Puluj experimented with his new device and published his results in a scientific paper, Luminous Electrical Matter and the Fourth State of Matter in the Notes of the Austrian Imperial Academy of Sciences, but expressed his ideas in an obscure manner using obsolete terminology.

Ivan Puluj did gain some recognition when the work was translated and published as a book by the Royal Society in the UK.

Ivan Puluj's findings were essentially X-rays, which he reported 6 weeks after Rontgen reported his.

Ivan Puluj is particularly noted for inventing a device for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat that was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.

Ivan Puluj participated in opening of several power plants in Austria-Hungary.

Ivan Puluj is known for his contribution in promoting Ukrainian culture.

Ivan Puluj actively supported opening of a Ukrainian university in Lviv and published articles to support Ukrainian language.