A monumental work of art „A Tribute to Creative Thinking“ dominates the fountain. Blocks with rotating mirror surfaces symbolize the constant transformation and movement, the infinity of the passage of time, thoughts, ideas and new changes, as well as the imaginary turbine blades of a modern machine. It was the turbines, the new scientific discipline at that time, to which the scientist and visionary Aurel Stodola dedicated his life. At the age of 81, he received the greatest honour a technician can receive - he was awarded the James Watt International Gold Medal, similar to the Nobel Prize in Technology. Today, his name is immortalized in the dark granite of the static block of the fountain. The second block bears the names of seventy Mikuláš´s natives, who are permanently inscribed in the history of the city - scientists, artists, writers, priests, doctors, teachers, ... The area around the fountain is a popular resting place with many cafés and patisseries.

You can find out more about Aurel Stodola's personality in the Professor Stodola's Office exhibition in the Janko Kráľ Museum or at the website www.aurelstodola.sk