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Ottó Bláthy

1860 - 1939

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Ottó Titusz Bláthy (11 August 1860 – 26 September 1939) was a Hungarian electrical engineer. During his career he became the co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the voltage regulator, the AC watt-hour meter, the turbo generator, the high-efficiency turbo generator and the motor capacitor for the single-phase (AC) electric motor. Bláthy's career as an inventor began during his time at the Ganz Works in 1883. There, he conducted experiments for creating a transformer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ottó Bláthy is the 248th most popular inventor (down from 241st in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 325th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ottó Bláthy ranks 248 out of 426. Before him are Alexander Parkes, John Kemp Starley, Wan Hu, Charles Martin Hall, Georges Hébert, and Ricardo Wolf. After him are François Isaac de Rivaz, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Peter Madsen, Marcian Hoff, Vittorio Jano, and Clive Sinclair.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Ottó Bláthy ranks 88. Before him are Henrietta Szold, Eugen Goldstein, Charles de Broqueville, Sunanda Kumariratana, Ellen Axson Wilson, and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Joan Maragall, Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, James Neill, Franz Nissl, Silvestras Žukauskas, and Józef Bilczewski. Among people deceased in 1939, Ottó Bláthy ranks 87. Before him are Pavel Postyshev, Alice Brady, Vlas Chubar, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Yevgeny Miller, and Archduke Leo Karl of Austria. After him are Kálmán Darányi, Anna Coleman Ladd, Prosper Bruggeman, Levon Mirzoyan, Ford Madox Ford, and Masabumi Hosono.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ottó Bláthy ranks 365 out of 1,077. Before him are Péter Szondi (1929), Angéla Németh (1946), István Kertész (1929), Géza Gárdonyi (1863), Bertalan Farkas (1949), and Lajos Werkner (1883). After him are Jenő Fock (1916), Mickey Hargitay (1926), István Bárány (1907), Ferenc Farkas (1905), Pál Kovács (1912), and Karol Divín (1936).

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Among INVENTORS In Hungary

Among inventors born in Hungary, Ottó Bláthy ranks 5. Before him are Ernő Rubik (1944), László Bíró (1899), David Schwarz (1850), and Tivadar Puskás (1844). After him are Kálmán Kandó (1869), Paul von Jankó (1856), and Peter Carl Goldmark (1906).

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