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Petrache Poenaru – Inventor Of The Fountain Pen
His insatiable lust for knowledge took him through French harbors, mines and farms and, in spite of his poor financial situation (there were days when he had only one meal), he enjoyed and valued every moment, even when he activated as a simple worker.
As the leading industrialized country of the period, England was inevitably his next destination. He became the first Romanian ever to travel by train, from Liverpool to Manchester, in 1831, only a year after the first railway in the world was inaugurated, and he was deeply impressed how a single steam engine could pull all those carts (as he called them).
After he returned to Romania, he became a Physics and Mathematics teacher at Saint Sava College in Bucharest and, later on, he was appointed headmaster of this institution and established specialized courses in the fields of Agriculture, Geodesy, Superior Mathematics or Mechanics. These sciences’ specific terms and concepts didn’t exist in the Romanian language, so, in addition, Poenaru had the difficult task of adapting them or thoroughly explaining them to his countrymen. In 1838, he became general supervisor for all the schools in Wallachia and he initiated a project of creating village schools.
He also engaged in a struggle to convince his contemporaries to implement a decimal measurement system, he worked on a project destined to implement the use of bricks with the same dimensions throughout the country, he initiated the silkworms rearing and he actively supported the release of the slaves (mostly Gypsies).
After the unification of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859, he continued his multilateral activity and he became member of the Romanian Academy in 1870. In his ceremonial speech he recollected that he owed everything he had accomplished to those several months when he had been a “pandur”.
Author: Iulian Fira
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