Josip Belusic Inventor of Speedometer

Biography of Josip Belusic

Early Life

Josip Belusic inventor of Speedometer is considered a legend of the field that changed the dimensions of measuring the speed. He is widely credited as the inventor of speedometer and considered as a good scientist. He was born in the year of 1847 in Labin which is located in Istria in Croatia. After some years of age, his family moved from there and started to live in Zupanici settlements and if we say that he spent his all childhood over there then it would not be wrong as he was just of a small age when they moved. He started his early education in Pazin and after further education, started trying for his career.

Career

As Josip is a scientist of almost 150 years ago, some of the information is not present for his different tries for career but this thing is clear that he tried a lot for his career initially but got success later on. After initial jobs and career growth, he got a golden chance when he moved his attention to the teaching field and soon after that, he got a job as a professor in another city named as Koper.

Inventor of Speedometer

Josip Belusic didn’t had interest in inventing anything initially but after becoming a professor, he was almost 41 years of age when he made his first and most known invention named as speedometer. It was the first ever electric speedometer which he named as velocimeter at that time. The reason of naming it as velocimeter is as velocity meter which means to measure the velocity. Soon after that, he applied for the rights of the invention and was awarded a patent in the same year in Austria and Hungary. He showed his invention publically in the year of 1889 in a fair in Paris where he changed its name. Later on, his design was approved and he got the patent in France too.

Speedometer

Speedometer was invented by Josip Belusic in the year of 1888 and it was named as Velocimeter initially. Speedometer is also said as the speed meter which is used to measure the speed. This instrument is a kind of gauge and its main function is to measure the instantaneous speed of a bike, vehicle or any car. Speedometer was designed initially in analogous form but later on, its development to the digital form led it to be a necessary and must part of every car and vehicle. It consists of a kind of scale on which kilometers per hour are noted down and a needle is used to measure the speed of the car by pointing the appropriate speed per kilometer on the board. It can be said that, Josip changed the type of modern cars by this worthy invention by him.

Death

There is no specific and appropriate information available about his death year and there are different dates on every different source.