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Ottó Titusz Bláthy (August 11,1860–September 26, 1939), was a Hungarian
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
 electrical engineer. In his career, he became the co-inventor of the electric transformer
Transformer

A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one electrical network to another through inductive coupling conductors — the transformer's coils or "windings"....
, the tension regulator, the watt meter, the alternating current
Alternating current

In alternating current the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. An electric charge would for instance move forward, then backward, then forward, then backward, over and over again....
 (AC) electric motor
Electric motor

An electric motor uses electrical energy to produce mechanical energy, nearly always by the interaction of magnetic fields and current-carrying conductors....
, the turbo generator
Turbo generator

A turbo generator is a turbine directly connected to an electric generator for the generation of electric power. Large Steam turbine turbo generators provide the majority of the world's electricity and are also used by steam powered, turbo-electric ships...
, and the high efficiency turbo generator.

Ottó Titusz's career as an inventor began during his time at the Ganz
Ganz

File:19880816-TRIPOLIS-GANZ-A6463.jpg The Ganz electric works in Budapest is probably best known for the manufacture of tramcars, but was also a pioneer in the application of three-phase alternating current to railway electrification system....
 Works in 1883. It is noteworthy, that the name "transformer" was created by Ottó Titusz Bláthy.






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Ottó Titusz Bláthy (August 11,1860–September 26, 1939), was a Hungarian
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
 electrical engineer. In his career, he became the co-inventor of the electric transformer
Transformer

A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one electrical network to another through inductive coupling conductors — the transformer's coils or "windings"....
, the tension regulator, the watt meter, the alternating current
Alternating current

In alternating current the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. An electric charge would for instance move forward, then backward, then forward, then backward, over and over again....
 (AC) electric motor
Electric motor

An electric motor uses electrical energy to produce mechanical energy, nearly always by the interaction of magnetic fields and current-carrying conductors....
, the turbo generator
Turbo generator

A turbo generator is a turbine directly connected to an electric generator for the generation of electric power. Large Steam turbine turbo generators provide the majority of the world's electricity and are also used by steam powered, turbo-electric ships...
, and the high efficiency turbo generator.

Ottó Titusz's career as an inventor began during his time at the Ganz
Ganz

File:19880816-TRIPOLIS-GANZ-A6463.jpg The Ganz electric works in Budapest is probably best known for the manufacture of tramcars, but was also a pioneer in the application of three-phase alternating current to railway electrification system....
 Works in 1883. It is noteworthy, that the name "transformer" was created by Ottó Titusz Bláthy. 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
Miksa Déri

Miksa D?ri , was a Hungary electrical engineer, co-inventor of the closed iron core transformer and the ZBD model Alternating current electrical generator....
 and Károly Zipernowsky
Károly Zipernowsky

K?roly Zipernowsky , was a Hungary electrical engineer. He was the co-inventor of the transformer and other Alternating current technologies....
. (ZBD comes from the initials of their names).

Besides his scientific work, Ottó Titusz Bláthy is well known as an author of chess problem
Chess problem

A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a Chess puzzle set by somebody using chess pieces on a chess board, that presents the solver with a particular task to be achieved....
s. He specialized in the field of very long moremovers, also known as longmovers. He probably holds the world record
World record

A world record is the best performance in a certain discipline, often a sports event. Outside of conventional sports, world records can also be set in virtually anything that is measurable, but verifying these records is often very difficult....
 for the total number of moves in his orthodox problems (see grotesque (chess)
Grotesque (chess)

In chess, a grotesque is a chess problem or endgame study which features a particularly unlikely initial position, especially one in which White fights with a very small force against a much larger black army....
 for one of his problems).

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  • Technical University of Budapest, "".Budapest, 1996 .
  • on PDB Server