Károly Zipernowsky facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Károly Zipernowsky
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Károly Zipernowsky
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Carl Zipernowsky
4 April 1853 |
| Died | 29 November 1942 Budapest, Hungary
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| Education | Technical University of Budapest |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Engineering career | |
| Institutions | Ganz Works |
| Projects | transformer alternating current |
Károly Zipernowsky (born as Carl Zipernowsky, 4 April 1853 – 29 November 1942) was a brilliant Austrian-born Hungarian electrical engineer. He is most famous for helping to invent the transformer. This amazing device helps us send electricity over long distances. He worked with his friends Miksa Déri and Ottó Bláthy at the famous Hungarian company Ganz Works. His work greatly improved how we use AC (alternating current) electricity today.
The Invention of the Transformer
Károly Zipernowsky, along with his colleagues Ottó Bláthy and Miksa Déri, worked at Ganz and Company. They were trying to find better ways to send electric power. At the time, sending electricity over long distances was difficult and wasteful.
They experimented with different ways to supply and change electric current. This led to their big invention: the ZBD alternating current transformer in 1885. The ZBD system used a special iron ring with wires wrapped around it. This design helped them change the voltage of the electricity.
Their transformer could take high-voltage electricity, which is good for sending power far away, and change it into lower, safer voltage for homes and businesses. This is called a "step-down" transformer. Later, Nikola Tesla suggested using "step-up" transformers. These would take lower voltage and make it higher for long-distance travel. This idea is now used all over the world to power our cities and towns.
Images for kids
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Prototypes of the world's first high-efficiency transformers. (Széchenyi István Memorial Exhibition Nagycenk)
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Dynamo Electric Machine [End View, Partly Section] (U.S. Patent 284,110)
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Magnetizing Current Shunt Circuit (U.S. Patent 284,110)
