When the University of Zagreb was reorganised in 1874 to become the first modern university in Croatia, it offered only the humanistic trivium of the Faculty of Law, the Theological College and the Faculty of Arts and Letters. However, documents show that in the wake of the momentous scientific discoveries at the end of the 19th century, its reformers had already made provision for the future establishment of faculties of natural sciences, engineering and other related disciplines.
Although the Academy traditionally promoted mainly arts and sciences, a strong technical culture and tradition developed alongside, particularly electrical engineering. Zagreb established its first telegraph connection with Vienna as early as 1850, when, on September 28, the first telegram was sent from Vienna to Zagreb by Josip Jelacic, the Civil Governor of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia; in 1875, a major scientific book was printed in Zagreb: Betriebsstörungen oberirdischer Telegraphen-Leitungen, deren Aufsuchung und Behebung, by Ferdinand Kovačević, a pioneer and the first Croatian designer in the field of telegraphy; the first exchange in Zagreb was set up by Wilim Schwarz in 1886 and the first telephone was introduced in 1887; near the city of Šibenik, on the river Krka, on the beautiful waterfalls of Skradinski buk the hydro-power plant "Krka" was put in operation on 28 August 1895 (power generator 320 kVA, frequency 42 Hz), together with a polyphase transmission system (3 kV transmission line, 11 km long) to supply the city of Šibenik with electrical power - the first system of this kind in Croatia.
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