Croatian Inventors Murals

Zagreb


Electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla and Slavoljub Penkala, inventor of the mechanical pencil, are celebrated in these two murals cheering up the dowdy staircase terrace that provides a shortcut from Strossmayerovo up to Katarinin trg. They are the work of artists Boris Bare and Dominik Vuković.


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