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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 tension 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 138,749 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ottó Bláthy is the 249th most popular inventor (down from 223rd in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 264th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Inventor.

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  • 23

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ottó Bláthy ranks 249 out of 354. Before him are Ottmar Mergenthaler, Theodore Maiman, Glenn Curtiss, Ray Dolby, Frank Zamboni, and Jacob W. Davis. After him are Aimo Lahti, Walter Hunt, Aurel Stodola, Eunice Newton Foote, Colin Archer, and Pavel Yablochkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Ottó Bláthy ranks 71. Before him are Carl Anton Larsen, Eugen Goldstein, Karel Kramář, Paul Ulrich Villard, Joan Maragall, and Edward MacDowell. After him are William Bayliss, Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten, Douglas Hyde, Emil von Reznicek, Hugo Preuß, and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Among people deceased in 1939, Ottó Bláthy ranks 74. Before him are Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Henri Le Sidaner, Francisco León de la Barra, Charles Tournemire, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, and Eugène-Henri Gravelotte. After him are Benjamin Tucker, Levon Mirzoyan, Alice Brady, Pavel Postyshev, Stanisław Leśniewski, and Patriarch Miron of Romania.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ottó Bláthy ranks 305 out of 866. Before him are Peter Lax (1926), Márton Bukovi (1903), Zoltán Fábri (1917), Emma Orczy (1865), Gábor Szabó (1936), and Sára Salkaházi (1899). After him are Géza Gárdonyi (1863), Mickey Hargitay (1926), Ferenc Gyurcsány (1961), Leó Weiner (1885), Vilmos Zsigmond (1930), and Mihály Babits (1883).

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Among INVENTORS In Hungary

Among inventors born in Hungary, Ottó Bláthy ranks 4. Before him are Ernő Rubik (1944), László Bíró (1899), and David Schwarz (1850). After him are Tivadar Puskás (1844), Paul von Jankó (1856), Peter Carl Goldmark (1906), and Kálmán Kandó (1869).

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