INVENTOR

Kálmán Tihanyi

1897 - 1947

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Kálmán Tihanyi (Hungarian: [ˈkaːlmaːn ˈtihɒɲi]), or in English language technical literature often mentioned as Coloman Tihanyi or Koloman Tihanyi (28 April 1897 – 26 February 1947) was a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. One of the early pioneers of electronic television, he made significant contributions to the development of cathode ray tubes (CRTs), which were bought and further developed by the Radio Corporation of America (later RCA), and German companies Loewe and Fernseh AG. He invented and designed the world's first automatic pilotless aircraft in Great Britain. He is also known for the invention of the first infrared video camera in 1929, and coined the first flat panel plasma display in 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kálmán Tihanyi has received more than 84,107 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kálmán Tihanyi is the 380th most popular inventor, the 218th most popular biography from Slovakia and the 5th most popular Slovak Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kálmán Tihanyi ranks 380 out of 426. Before him are Margaret E. Knight, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, William Fothergill Cooke, Karl Jatho, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, and Harold Eugene Edgerton. After him are Barnes Wallis, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Mohamed M. Atalla, Herbert E. Ives, Robert S. Langer, and Oleg Losev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Kálmán Tihanyi ranks 278. Before him are Jackson Scholz, Kenneth Burke, Tom Florie, Nunnally Johnson, James Parrott, and Aleksandra Khokhlova. After him are Viola Dana, Per-Erik Hedlund, Aneurin Bevan, Ángel Médici, Edward Moore, and Sigurd Moen. Among people deceased in 1947, Kálmán Tihanyi ranks 191. Before him are Annie S. D. Maunder, Reginald Innes Pocock, Tomás Berreta, Charles Gondouin, Yngvar Bryn, and Julio Lores. After him are Almroth Wright, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, Joseph Barcroft, Georg Hoffmann, Joseph Cook, and Ercole Olgeni.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Kálmán Tihanyi ranks 218 out of 418. Before him are Laurus Škurla (1928), Jozef Štibrányi (1940), Koloman Sokol (1902), Ivan Bella (1964), Ľubomír Luhový (1967), and Charles Korvin (1907). After him are Peter Dubovský (1972), Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová (1855), Adolf Schwarz (1836), Mikuláš Galanda (1895), Herman Steiner (1905), and Mirka Federer (1978).

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Among INVENTORS In Slovakia

Among inventors born in Slovakia, Kálmán Tihanyi ranks 5. Before him are Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871), Aurel Stodola (1859), and Jozef Murgaš (1864).

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