Ottó Bláthy
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Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860-1939), was a Hungarian electrical engineer, co-inventor of the electric transformer, the tension regulator, the watt meter, the alternating current (AC) electric motor, the turbogenerator and high efficiency turbogenerator.
Ottó Titusz practical application during his time at the Ganz Works in 1883. 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 and Károly Zipernowsky. (ZBD comes from the initials of their names).
Beside his scientific work, Ottó Titusz Bláthy is well known as author of chess problems. He specialized in the field of very long moremovers, also known as longmovers. He probably holds world record for the total number of moves of his orthodox problems (see grotesque (chess) for one of his problems).
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- Technical University of Budapest, "Editing Ottó Bláthy".Budapest, 1996 .
- Blathy problem's on PDB Serverhu:Bláthy Ottó
