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| He published several works in a series of books of the ], such as ''Fluorescencija i calcescencija'' (1871)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sekulić|first1=Martin|title=RAD: Knjiga XV - Fluorescencija i calcescencija|date=1871|publisher=Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti|location=Zagreb|pages=77–86|language=hr}}</ref> and ''Iztraživanje sunčane duge'' (1873).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sekulić|first1=Martin|title=RAD: Knjiga XXIII - Iztraživanje sunčane duge|date=1873|publisher=Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti|location=Zagreb|pages=75–85|language=hr}}</ref> In the first case, he explains the effect of the luminescence in some elements and in the second he talks about the visible spectrum of the sun's light. Not only he published several works, he also conducted some debates about the publications and its content. In one of them, Sekulić predicted the existence of electromagnetic oscillations at different frequencies.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Petešic|first1=Ciril|title=Genij s našeg kamenjara|date=1976|publisher=Školske novine|location=Zagreb|page=30|language=hr}}</ref> | He published several works in a series of books of the ], such as ''Fluorescencija i calcescencija'' (1871)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sekulić|first1=Martin|title=RAD: Knjiga XV - Fluorescencija i calcescencija|date=1871|publisher=Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti|location=Zagreb|pages=77–86|language=hr}}</ref> and ''Iztraživanje sunčane duge'' (1873).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sekulić|first1=Martin|title=RAD: Knjiga XXIII - Iztraživanje sunčane duge|date=1873|publisher=Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti|location=Zagreb|pages=75–85|language=hr}}</ref> In the first case, he explains the effect of the luminescence in some elements and in the second he talks about the visible spectrum of the sun's light. Not only he published several works, he also conducted some debates about the publications and its content. In one of them, Sekulić predicted the existence of electromagnetic oscillations at different frequencies.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Petešic|first1=Ciril|title=Genij s našeg kamenjara|date=1976|publisher=Školske novine|location=Zagreb|page=30|language=hr}}</ref> | ||
| The inventor ] noted in his 1919 autobiography ] that when he attended the ] (Karlovac) between 1870 and 1873, demonstrations of electricity by his "professor of physics" sparked his interest in this "mysterious phenomena" and made him want "to know more of this wonderful force".<ref>W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, Princeton University Press - 2013, page 29</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Tesla|first1=Nikola|title=My Inventions - III.My Later Endeavours (The Discovery of the Rotating Magnetic Field)|date=1919|publisher=Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc.|location=New York|pages=864-865|language=English}}</ref> The details of who was teaching physics at that time and the nature of the demonstrations described have lead some to conclude this professor was Martin Sekulić.<ref>Historian Ciril Petešić notes that Tesla does not mention which professor this was by name, but thinks the evidence points to it being prof. Martin Sekulić.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Petešic|first1=Ciril|title=Genij s našeg kamenjara|date=1976|publisher=Školske novine|location=Zagreb|pages=29-30|language=hr}}</ref> | |||
| {{Quote|text=I had become intensely interested in electricity under the stimulating influence of my Professor of Physics, who was an ingenious man and often demonstrated the principles by apparatus of his own invention. Among these I recall a device in the shape of a freely rotatable bulb, with tinfoil coatings, which was made to spin rapidly when connected to a static machine. It is impossible for me to convey an adequate idea of the intensity of feeling I experienced in witnessing his exhibitions of these mysterious phenomena. Every impression produced a thousand echoes in my mind. I wanted to know more of this wonderful force; I longed for experiment and investigation and resigned myself to the inevitable with aching heart.|author=]|title='']''}} | |||
| == References == | == References == | ||
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| Born | 1833 Lovinac, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 1905 Zagreb, Austria-Hungary |
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Martin Sekulić (Lovinac, Austrian Empire, today Croatia, 1833 - Zagreb, Austria-Hungary, today Croatia, 1905) was a mathematics and physics teacher in the Higher Real School in Rakovac (today Karlovac).
He was member of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti - JAZU) and member of the Coratian pedagogic and literary society (Hrvatski pedagogijsko-književni zbor) and public representative in the Provincial Assembly of the Croatian, Slavonian and Dalmatian Kingdom. He published several valuable works in German, because it was the language of education in schools then, on physics, electric engineering and physical chemistry.
He published several works in a series of books of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts, such as Fluorescencija i calcescencija (1871) and Iztraživanje sunčane duge (1873). In the first case, he explains the effect of the luminescence in some elements and in the second he talks about the visible spectrum of the sun's light. Not only he published several works, he also conducted some debates about the publications and its content. In one of them, Sekulić predicted the existence of electromagnetic oscillations at different frequencies.
References
- "Nikola Tesla - Gimnazija Karlovac" (in Croatian). Retrieved 2016-08-21.
- Petešic, Ciril (1976). Genij s našeg kamenjara (in Croatian). Zagreb: Školske novine. p. 30.
- "Nikola Tesla" (in Croatian). www.croatianhistory.net. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
- Sekulić, Martin (1871). RAD: Knjiga XV - Fluorescencija i calcescencija (in Croatian). Zagreb: Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti. pp. 77–86.
- Sekulić, Martin (1873). RAD: Knjiga XXIII - Iztraživanje sunčane duge (in Croatian). Zagreb: Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti. pp. 75–85.
- Petešic, Ciril (1976). Genij s našeg kamenjara (in Croatian). Zagreb: Školske novine. p. 30.