Friday 8 November 2013

Puskás Tivadar





Most Brits know Puskás. They would say he is a famous Hungarian footballer. That is Ferenc Puskás.

Few know that it was another Puskás, Tivadár, who developed the telephone exchange and founded a telephone newspaper in Budapest, Telefon Hírmondó, in 1893.

Here on my favourite radio programme, BBC Radio 4, I just listened to  a programme about the other Puskás, the telephone newspaper man –

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03gby1r

Puskás Tivadar is one of the famous Hungarians who actually did his inventing in Hungary –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-F08X81o0
 

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1 comment:

  1. Andrew8 November 2013 at 22:32

    Fascinating.

    Thanks for spotting and sharing.

    Unequivocally Hungarian.

    A.

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