Tivadar Puskás
Tivadar Puskás (born September 17, 1844 in Pest , † March 16, 1893 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian inventor. He designed in 1879 in Paris , the first European telephone exchange and founded in 1893 in Budapest, the telephone newspaper Phone Hírmondó .
Life
He began studying engineering in Vienna and completed it at the Technical University of Budapest . In 1866 he went to London . From 1873 he worked in the United States , where he was an employee of Thomas Edison . Between 1877 and 1886 he was Edison's representative in Europe . According to Puskás' plans, the first telephone exchanges were built in Boston in 1878 and in Paris in 1879 . In 1879 he went back to Hungary and started building telephone exchanges with his brother in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . In 1892 Puskás patented the technology behind the telephone newspaper (a forerunner of the radio ) and in 1893 founded the telephone newspaper Telefon Hírmondó.
"Hello?!"
When Puskás tested the prototype of a telephone device in Boston in 1877 and at the other end heard the voice of the person he was speaking to for the first time, he was said to yell out excitedly and say “hallom!” ( Hungarian: “I hear (you)”). hallod? ”( Hungarian “ do you hear? ”). From this “hallom” or “hallod” the internationally used “hello” or engl. "Hello". In addition to this, there are some other explanations for the word origin of "hello" .
literature
- Z. Fallenbüchl: Puskás from Ditró Tivadar. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 345.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puskás, Tivadar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plague (city) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1893 |
| Place of death | Budapest |