Belušić exhibited his invention at the 1889 Exposition Universell in Paris, renaming it "Controllore automatico per vetture". In the same year, the Municipality of Paris announced a public competition, and over 120 patents were registered to compete. His design won as the most precise and reliable and was accepted in June 1890. Within a year, a hundred devices were installed on Parisian carriages. In 1889, the Croatian newspaper "Naša sloga" predicted that "[Belušić's invention] will spread all over the world, and with it the name of our virtuous Istrian, friend and patriot."