Donát Bánki

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Donát Bánki (June 6, 1859 - August 1, 1922) <ref name=HunInvent>

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    Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Damascus, Syria, 2006, webpage:
    HungEmb-Culture.

</ref> was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, inventor of (among many other things) the carburetor, together with János Csonka, in 1893, as the Bánki-Csonka engine.<ref name=HunInvent/> The credit for the invention is often, incorrectly, attributed to the German Wilhelm Maybach, who submitted his patent half a year after Bánki and Csonka.

In 1898, Donát Bánki invented the high-compression engine with a dual carburetor, an evaporation method in use ever since.

The invention of the carburetor gave a jolt to the development of automobiles, as previously the proper mixing of fuel and air in engines had not been solved.

Some sources say that the idea of the carburetor came from a flower-girl, whom, one evening, Bánki, walking home from the Budapest Technical University, saw sprinkling water onto her flowers from a mouth-blown spray.