Ognjeslav Stepanović Kostović

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Stepanović and the family name is Kostović.
Ognjeslav Stepanović Kostović
Born1851 (1851)
Wieselburg, Austrian Empire
DiedDecember 16, 1916(1916-12-16) (aged 64–65)
Saint Petersburg
OccupationInventor

Ognjeslav Stepanović Kostović (Serbian Cyrillic: Огњеслав Степановић Костовић) (1851 – 16 December 1916) was a Serbian inventor. He is credited with creating "arbonite" (i.e. plywood), the first "plastic" materials (e.g. gutta percha) pre-date 1906 plastic in the world.

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