France Rode, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

France Rode

electrical engineer

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1934

Place of Birth: Nožice, Osrednjeslovenska Statistical Region, Slovenia

Date of Death: 07-Jun-2017

Profession: engineer, inventor

Nationality: United States, Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

France Rode (November 20, 1934 – June 7, 2017) was a Slovenian engineer and inventor best known for his work on the HP-35 pocket calculator.
He was one of the four lead engineers at Hewlett-Packard assigned to this project. Rode also invented and created the first workable RFID products: workplace entry cards, for which he held several patents.