(E) 140 years since the construction of torpedo by Ivan Lupis Vukic
Ivan Lupis Vukic
Inventor of torpedo the production of torpedo had started in 1866 in the Whitehead factory in Rijeka. He was born on the beautiful Peljesac peninsula near Dubrovnik.
140 years since the construction of the first torpedo in history
as far as we know ivan lupis was actually born in the medieval village of Nakovana he was my husbands family's neighbor. this village is located on a plateau in the hills on the end of the Peljesac Peninsular that runs north west from Dubrovnik approximately 120 kms from Dubrovnik. The village has significant historical interest because of a cave that has been found above it that had been closed for 2 or 3 thousand years and because of the old burial mounds surrounding it. the people of the village hold a festival there on the 8th September each year and display information about Lupis Vukic's life in his house.
