Hungarian Inventions

The horse stirrups, which made the horseman so effective was invented by the Huns
at the time of the birth of christ. It was introduced into Europe by mainly the Hungarians. These were iron or steel. Earlier famous horsemen like the Scythians had no stirrups. Similarly the Hungarian saddle was a new inovation for it bridged the spine of the horse so that it was light and did not rub and chafe the animal.

The use of yeast in dough to make bread was also from Hungary.
Similarly the famous croisant (puff pastry) was not French but Hungarian in origin.

The first use of copper comes from the ancient lands of the Carpathian Basin.

However in Messopotamia the Subarians of the Caucasus Mtns are the discoverers of its use and also the developers of bronze. In Messopotamian languages the name of bronze comes from their ethnic name Zabar, to mean bronze. Hungarian szobor = statue comes also from this. Szubar is another ethnic name of the Caucasian Hungarians.

Powdered meat and powdered milk was also used by the Hungarian soldiers of
the 9th century as reported by the Venecians.

The name and invention of the smooth riding, spring steel shock absorbtion "coach" comes from Hungarian in all the European languages. The Hungarian kocsi -szekér
and its small front and larger back wheel introduced many improvements to comfortable travel of the 15th century. Kochi in Hungarian means just wagon.

The vertical axel wind turbine comes from the 15 th century fort captain of Veszprém, Venatius Faustus. He also experimented with developing the typewriter.

The first electric motor was developed 18 years before Siemens in Györ, Hungary by
John Jedlik at the begining of the 19th century. Unfortunately he never pursued the use of this invention for other applications.

Jozsef Petzval, 1839 the inventor of the photographic objective lens. In his time two Frenchmen invented the camera however their camera had many shortcomings.
Again he did not make any money out of his invention and instead the German Voigtlander built a factory to utilize this method. He also build the first darkroom
and projector.

The modern piano's keyboard was developed by Paul Janka.

Baron Eötvös developed the method of measuring gravitation and his methods are
used to locate underground metals and oil.

In 1892 Donát Bánki and John Csonka developed the carburator for gasoline engines.

The AC transformer was invented by Carl Zipernovsky, Miksa Déri, Otto Bláthy. This made it possible to distribute electricity over long distances.

Kálmán Kandó invented the three phase electric powered electric trains. His methods mere used in northern Italy and Hungary to power electric trains.

Jozsef Virág and Anthony Pollák 1895 invented the fast telegraph machine. This was also adapted to send pictures. Their machine could send 40,000 characters in an hour. This was adopted world wide afterwards.

Michael Dénes developed early Television circuits in Europe.

Dr Luis Dorogi and Stephen Dorogi develpoped many blow up toys. Dolls, balls, swimming aids.

Dr Steiner the inventor of the tank. This like many Hungarian inventions went to Vienna, Austria and ignored as impractical? By the time the war broke out it was too late to use it.

Zoltán Bay was the co-inventor of the Bay-Steiner ultraviolet lamp.

The world famous "German" volkswagen was according to the Manheim national pattent office designed primarily by the Hungarian Béla Barényi.

The ultramicroscope was developed by Richard Zsigmond.

The Canadian and Argentine press reported that a Hungarian (Jozsef Pap) traveled to France in his hand made atomic submarine. Much of this has been kept quiet including the similarly powered bus he build much later in Torrance, California, USA. [ I have seen this with my own eyes!]

In 1802 John Boyai the inventor of the non-Euclidian geometry. Marosvásárhely which is now in Rumania.

The match was invented by John Irinyi 1836.

Tivadar Puskás, (in Detroit) was the inventor of the telephone exchange. Before this the telephone only had one to one connections. He was a coworker of Edison. He also invented an electronic news distribution over wire, sort of a telephone radio which was used in Budapest.

Oskar Asboth, the builder and designer of the first working helicopter. (before Sikorsy)

The jet engine was invented in February, 1915 by Albert Fono. Who introduced a plan to the Austro-Hungarian Army chiefs. Naturally they ignored him. After the war he continued his researches in the supersonic aircraft engines and applied for pattents in Germany in 1928. It took an unusually long time to review his invention and in 1932 he obtained the pattents. The American Rocket Society reviewed his pattents in 1960.

The first subway system on the European continent was in Budapest.

Philip Lénárt, the Hungarian born teacher of Heidelberg, made possible the discovery by Röngen of Xrays.

[First Hungarian designed and built automobiles 1907.]

[Still in the works, lots of missing pieces!]

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