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Peter Salcher’s activity within the Club for Natural Sciences in Rijeka

The Club for Natural Sciences in Rijeka was founded on Nov 28, 1883, and was the first of such a kind within the area of present day Croatia. Prof. Salcher was one of the founders who, with baron Giorgio Vranyczany, signed the activity of the Club during the first 20 years of its existence. Besides professors, the members of the Club were all municipal physicians, intellectuals, industrialist, owners, merchants and diplomats. Prof. Salcher was the first secretary of the Club, and during its activity he held all important positions, including that of vice-president and president. he was also one of the founders of the Roentgen Committee which, already in 1887, purchased the first Roentgen apparatus used in the Club for medical diagnosis. he was also involved in the activity of the Photographic section within the Club. He was editor of the German part of the Bulletin of the Club for natural Sciences in Rijeka Prof Salcher alone held 31 lectures during the first 20 years of the Club's activity. The majority was in the field of physics and technology, but he also held lectures on art, ethics, pedagogy and hygiene. The most important lectures held were: "taking photograph of fast movements" from 1886, when he showed photographs of a flying bullet taken with the help of high school prof. S. Riegler, and two lectures on X-rays: the first from 1896 with the help of prof. S. Brattanich ( a week later prof. Slokovich repeated the same lecture in Italian) and the second from 1897 ( with the help of M. Gorup).

Peter Salcher, Club for Natural Sciences in Rijeka

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