2009 Slovakia €10 Silver Coin "Aurel Stodola"

• Mint: Mint Kremnica
• Denomination: €10
• Quality: Proof/BU
• Issue limit: 13,300/10,100 pcs.
• Alloy: 90% Silver
• Diameter: 34 mm
• Weight: 18 grams
• Edge: "KONŠTRUKTÉR - VYNÁLEZCA - PEDAGÓG" (constructor, inventor, pedagogue)
• Design: Miroslav Ronai
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This is the first silver commemorative issue denominated in euros by the Slovak Central Bank, and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of engineer and physicist Aurel Stodola.

Aurel Boreslav Stodola was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor, and a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications. Stodola was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute in Zurich.

Stodola worked closely with industries on the development of the first practical gas turbines, in particular Brown, Boveri & Cie, who built the first turbine-powered electric generator in 1939.

The obverse depicts a turbo generator of that time. The reverse shows a portrait of Aurel Stodola, and a pair of compasses used in technical drawings.