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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ottó Bláthy has received more than 143,613 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ottó Bláthy is the 241st most popular inventor (up from 249th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 305th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ottó Bláthy ranks 241 out of 426. Before him are L. L. Langstroth, Pavel Yablochkov, Georges Hébert, Hans von Ohain, Tivadar Puskás, and Clive Sinclair. After him are John Kemp Starley, Thonmi Sambhota, Ray Dolby, Frank Zamboni, Eugen Langen, and Rodolphe Lindt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Ottó Bláthy ranks 77. Before him are Hugo Preuß, Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Carl Anton Larsen, William Bayliss, André Prévost, and Max von Oppenheim. After him are Douglas Hyde, Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Franz Nissl, Florence Harding, Henrietta Szold, and Joan Maragall. Among people deceased in 1939, Ottó Bláthy ranks 84. Before him are Hedwiga Rosenbaumová, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, Zinaida Yusupova, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Fyodor Raskolnikov, and Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro. After him are Enrique Fernández Arbós, Vlas Chubar, Levon Mirzoyan, Harvey Cushing, Stanisław Leśniewski, and Gustavs Zemgals.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ottó Bláthy ranks 325 out of 1,077. Before him are Elizabeth Granowska (1372), Ján Kadár (1918), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Miklós Radnóti (1909), Raoul Bott (1923), and Tivadar Puskás (1844). After him are Catherine Schell (1944), Friar Julian (1250), Péter Palotás (1929), Johann Löwenthal (1810), Gordon Bajnai (1968), and Stephen Heller (1813).

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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 Paul von Jankó (1856), Peter Carl Goldmark (1906), and Kálmán Kandó (1869).

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