Ottó Bláthy
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Ottó Titusz Bláthy (August 11, 1860 – September 26, 1939) was a Hungarian electrical engineer. In his career, he became the co-inventor of the electric transformer, the tension regulator (Voltage stabilizer) , the watt meter, the alternating current (AC) electric motor, the turbo generator, and the high efficiency turbo generator.
Ottó Titusz's career as an inventor began during his time at the Ganz Works in 1883. It is noteworthy, that the name "transformer" was created by Ottó Titusz Bláthy. [1] There, he conducted experiments for creating a transformer. In 1885 the ZBD model alternating-current transformer was invented by three Hungarian engineers: Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri and Károly Zipernowsky. (ZBD comes from the initials of their names).
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Besides his scientific work, Ottó Titusz Bláthy is well known as an author of chess problems. He specialized in the field of very long moremovers, also known as longmovers. He probably holds the world record for the total number of moves in his orthodox problems (see grotesque (chess) for one of his problems).
External links
- Technical University of Budapest, "Ottó Titusz Bláthy".Budapest, 1996 .
- Blathy's problems on PDB Server
- Biography and inventions of Otto Titusz Bláthy
- Evgeny Katz (2007-03-24). "Ottó Titusz Bláthy" (in en). Clarkson University. http://people.clarkson.edu/~ekatz/scientists/blathy.html. Retrieved 2009-08-02.