Marcel Kiepach — Croatian inventor in electrotechnics

Intensive development of electrotechnics in Croatia began in the second half of the 19th century. Just in that time, in a small Croatian town of Križevci, the future “monster of the mind” was born on February 12, 1894. He was the noble Marcel Kiepach of Haselburg, who became known for his patents of the gyro compass, the dynamo for illumination and the electric drives for remote compass indication. His works and inventions belong to the areas of electronics, magnetism, acoustics, transmission of sound signals, and transformers. He died in 1915 as a World War I volunteer at the age of 21.