Romania

1. LLP Comenius Multilateral Partnership 2013-2015
Material prepared by:
Alexandra Ungureanu – 11th Grade Student
Andreea Răileanu – 11th Grade Student
coordinated by:
Daniela Livadaru (Teacher of Religion)
Project Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey
- the 15th – the 20th of April 2015 -

2.  a Romanian academician and
engineer, pioneer of modern
aviation;
 physicist, inventor of the jet engine
and discoverer of the effect which
bears his name;
 builder of an experimental aircraft;

3.  Born in Bucharest, on the 7th of June,
1886, Coandă was the second child of a
large family;
 1896: He went to Saint Sava National
College. After three years (1899), his
father, who desired a military career for
him, had him transferred to the Military
High School in Iaşi.
 1903: He graduated with the rank
of sergeant major, and went to the School
of Artillery, Military and Naval
Engineering in Bucharest;

4.  1904: He enrolled in the
Technische Hochschule in
Charlottenburg, Berlin.
 1907-1908: He continued his
studies at the Montefiore
Institute in Liège, Belgium.
 1909-1910: He enrolled in the
newly founded École Nationale
Superieure d'Ingenieurs en
Construction Aéronautique.

5.  In 1905, he built a missile-
aeroplane for the Romanian Army;
 In 1910, in the workshop of Gianni
Caproni, he designed and built an
aircraft known as the Coandă-1910,
considered by some as the world's
first jet;
 Between 1911 and 1914, he worked
as technical manager of the Bristol
Aeroplane Company in the United
Kingdom, where he designed
several aeroplanes known as the
Bristol-Coandă Monoplanes.
Coandă 1911 aeroplane

6.  In 1915, he returned to France
where, working during World War
I for Delaunay-Belleville in Saint-
Denis. He designed and built three
different models of propeller
aeroplanes, including the Coandă-
1916, with two propellers mounted
close to the tail.
 Coandă spent World War II in
occupied France where he worked
for the Nazis, developing the turbo
propeller drive system into a
propulsion system for snow sleds.

7.  In 1969, at age 83, Coandă returned
to his homeland of Romania, where
he held directorships at institutions
related to his first love – scientific
development and aircraft.
 Coandă died in Bucharest in
November 1972 having reached the
age of 86.
 Over 200 separate inventions were
the legacy of this man who was a true
pioneer in his field.
Meeting with students and university
professors

8.  1911: An aircraft powered by two
engines driving a single propeller - the
configuration cancelled the torque of
the engines.
 A new decorative material for use in
construction, beton-bois; one
prominent example of its use is the
Palace of Culture, in Iaşi.
1926: A device to detect liquids
underground, useful in petroleum
prospecting (Romania) and a system
for offshore oil drilling (the Persian
Gulf region).Modular buildings – ways to join the walls

9.  During early 1930 he designed
a disc-shaped aircraft called
Aerodina Lenticulară, a "flying
saucer“
 A modular system of sea water
desalination and transformation
to fresh water, based on solar
energy.
 The most famous of Coandă's
discoveries is the Coandă Effect
of fluid dynamics, used in many
aeronautical inventions.

10.  First jet engine powered plane
 First twin engine plane
 First twin tail boom plane
 First thick wings
 First Kruger flaps
 First “Sesquiplan” wings
 First rocket cannon
 First static electricity dissipation rods
from trailing edges
 First method of photographing bullets in
flight
 First Fluid Amplifiers
 First external and internal Coandă
nozzles
 First hydraulic automobile transmission

11.  Henri Coandă received various
awards, among which:
 the Harry Diamond Laboratories
Award,
 Honorary Fellowship of the Royal
Aeronautical Society,
 Grand Gold Medal “Vielles Tiges”,
 UNESCO Award for Scientific
Research ,
 Medal of French Aeronautics,
Order of Merit and Commander
ring.

12.  a Romanian biologist and physician
 she discovered the anti-aging
effects of procaine
 pioneer of gerontology and
geriatrics in Romania
 founder of the first Geriatric
Institute in the world

13.  She was born in Brăila, on the 1st of
January 1897, as the youngest child
from her intellectual family.
 When she was have 13 years old,
her father died and they move to
Bucharest.
 1915: she graduates The Central
School in Bucharest.
 Since she was 16 she dreamed of
being a pilot. She even flew with a
small Bristol-Coandă aeroplane.Little Ana with her family

14.  Her calling to study medicine and,
after the completion of her
studies, to major in Gerontology,
was a direct result of her painful
loss. Although she could not
reverse the death of her father, she
was determined to research a
lively, complaint-free, and
humanitarian ageing process in
the service of mankind.
 Ana's wish to become a doctor
directly contrasted with what was
regarded as an ideal development
to become a wife and mother.

15.  1915: She was admitted to the
medical faculty of the University
in Bucharest, being the only
female student.
 Passionate of her studies, she
amazed one day her Anatomy
professor with a pioneering
medical idea (injecting contrast
substance to see the arteries).
 He prophesied a great career for
her in the area of surgery and
invited her to join him at his clinic
whenever she was ready.

16.  1916-1918: She was a surgeon
volunteer on the front line,
working in the military hospital.
 1919: Returned to Bucharest, in
the third year of her medical
training, Aslan applied to
become an assistant doctor to the
great Romanian neurologist, Prof
Gheorge Marinescu.
 1921: She successfully completed
the examination in Internal
Medicine as the first of 32
candidates.
Ana Aslan in Coleta Hospital

17.  1922: Ana Aslan completed her State
Examination and went to the
Bucharest Clinic II, as a Resident
Doctor and University Assistant.
 1924: She was granted the Ph.D. with
a work on Nervous System.
 1936: She became a member of the
Romanian Academy of Medicine.
 1936-1944: Head of Cardiology at the
CFR hospital (the Romanian
Railways) and Chief Medical Officer
of the clinical section at the
Philanthropic Hospital in Bucharest.
With prof. Daniel Danielopolou, who she had
seen as her master

18.  1945-1949: Professor of
Cardiology at the Faculty of
Medicine in Timişoara.
 1949-1952: Head of
department at the Institute
of Endocrinology in
Bucharest.
 1952: She founded the
Geriatric Institute of
Bucharest, the first of its
kind in the world, which
was recognized by the
Word Health Organization.
In lecture hall

19.  1946: Ana Aslan published her
first experiments with the
substance Procaine in
illnesses of the arteries.
 1946 to 1949: She achieved
very good therapy results with
this treatment and began
using it for chronic arthritis,
which usually surfaces in
advanced age.
 The foundations for the
development of Gero-H3-
Aslan had been laid.
With chemist Elena Polovrăgeanu and her
team, developing new medicines

20.  1960: Gerovital was introduced to
the international medicine world
at The Congress Therapiewoche
in Karlsruhe, and then at The
European Congress of
Gerontology in Basel.
 1960: Aslan started to develop a
new product, which apart
procaine contained Aslavital, an
activating and antiatherogenous
factor.
 Ana Aslan devised a therapeutic
strategy to prevent and treat
aging.

21.  She developed the anti-aging
product Gerovital H3 (1960),
designed to reduce third-age
chronic and degenerative diseases.
 Gerovital H3 and Aslavital are the
first Romanian original bio trophic
products and also the first
medicines designed to delay
human aging processes.
 Aslan also patented two cosmetic
products (hair lotion and cream
Gerovital H3); the range of
cosmetics have since diversified.

22.  Ana Aslan was the first Romanian doctor
tried to give a hope for the elderly by
highlighting the importance of procaine
in relieving dystrophic disorders related to
old age.
 She proceeded in the field of Social
Gerontology too. Within the Institute of
Geriatrics, a section with a field of activity
on medical, social, economic,
psychological, demographical, ecological
and cultural aspects of the aging process
was founded.
 The geronto-prophylaxis activity was
developed at national level.

23.  a Romanian biologist, zoologist,
speleologist, explorer of
Antarctica;
 the first biologist in the world to
study the arctic life;
 an influential professor, scholar
and researcher;
 the founder of bio-speleology.

24.  Emil Racoviță was born in 15 November
1868 in Iași, to the Racoviță family of
Moldavian boyars;
 Racoviță spent his childhood on the family
estate, in Șurănești, Vaslui County.
 He started his education in Iași, where he
had Ion Creangă as a teacher.
 He continued his secondary education at
the United Institutes, a private high school
for boys in Iași.

25.  1886-1889: He studied law at
the University of Paris, obtaining a
law degree. But he did not pursue a
law career, instead turning to the
natural sciences, under the
mentoring of zoologist and biologist
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, a
professor at the Sorbonne and at the
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
 Racoviță earned a B.S. degree in
1891, and a Ph.D. degree in 1896, for
a thesis on Le lobe cephalique et
l’encéphale des Annélides Polychète.

26.  As a promising young scientist,
Racoviță was selected to be part of
an international team that started
out on a research expedition to
Antarctica aboard the ship Belgica.
 The expedition was led by the
Belgian officer Adrien de Gerlache
and gathered many prominent
scientists: explorer Roald
Amundsen, physicist Émile Danco,
Polish geologist and oceanographer
Henryk Arctowski with his assistant
Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski and
American physician Frederick Cook.

27.  Racoviță was the first researcher
to collect over 1,200 zoological
and 400 botanical samples from
areas beyond the Antarctic Circle.
 He made important observations
and his rich collection of marine
fauna was an object of study for
many naturalists, who gave
Racoviţă’s name to some new
species.
 The results of his research were
published in 1900, under the title
The life of animals and plants in
Antarctica.
In the experimental lab on Belgica

28.  He also published a monograph on
the life of whales, that won him the
appreciation of the scientific
community.
 A year after his return, Racoviță was
appointed director of the Banyuls-
sur-Mer Oceanological Institute and
editor of the review Archives de
zoologie expérimentale et générale.
 A discovery in the Cave of the
Dragon, Mallorca, in 1902, was a
breakthrough in his career, centered
afterwards on the research of life in
caves.

29.  Emil Racoviță continued his
research, exploring over 1,400
caves in France, Spain, Algeria,
Slovenia and Italy, publishing a
fundamental work, Essay on Bio-
speleological Problems.
 During his underground
expeditions, Racovita has
collected and studied over 15,000
specimens of cave life forms.
 He is considered to be, together
with René Jeannel, one of the
founders of bio-speleology.
One of the biggest ice caves, in Apuseni
Mountains, Scărişoara Cave, explored by
Racoviţă between 1921-1923

30.  After his return to Romania, in 1919,
Racoviţă became head of the
Biology Department at the Upper
Dacia University (now the Babeș-
Bolyai University) in Cluj, where he
soon founded the first Institute of
Speleology in the world.
 He maintained contact with
oceanography and in 1925 he was
designated representative of
Romania in the International
Commission for the Scientific
Exploration of the Mediterranean
Sea.

31.  In 1920, he became a member of
the Romanian Academy and even
chairman of it (1926-1929) and he
remained a major figure of scientific
life in Romania until his death, in
1947.
 In 1956, the Institute in Cluj received
his name („Emil Racoviţă” Institute
of Speleology) and it was taken
under the patronage of the
Romanian Academy.
 In 2006, the first Romanian
Antarctic exploration station was
named Law-RacovițăIn the experimental lab on Belgica

32.  In 2013, a documentary (RO-EN),
The Explorer, was launched to
honour Emil Racoviţă’s memory.
 Using photographs made by Emil
Racovita in Antarctica, the film
highlights his existence, personality
and scientific activity and draws the
attention on the Antarctic
expedition of ship Belgica, where the
Romanian participated as a
naturalist and to which his entire
destiny was linked.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=iVajWJkMhco