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The tie is considered to be the original Croatian product and spread to Europe in the 17th century through the Croatian soldiers in the Thirty Years' War, where it became a recognizable fashion detail.
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The naval officer and inventor Ivan Blaž Lupis built a prototype of an explosive weapon which could be used to attack enemy ships.
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Ivan Vučetić was a criminalist employed in the police force. He was one of the founders of dactyloscopy and invented system for classifying fingerprints.
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The Croatian aviation architect of Ungarian origin, David Schwarz, made the first steerable airship with a metal frame.But, the credit for invention went to Ferdinand Zeppelin.
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Slavoljub Penkala, Croatian inventor of Polish origin, invented famous ballpoint pen, which the Penkala factory sold in around 70 countries.
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In 1959 Vegeta invented Zlatar Bartl, who at that time was the head of the team at the Podravka research lab.
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The first copy of the electric car invented by Mate Rimac was delivered in January 2013 to an unknown buyer.
