Hungarian Inventions -Did you know that?

how complex Ernő Rubik’s Cube is? The Rubik’s Cube is arguably one of the greatest Hungarian inventions. But its complexity if often underrated. The puzzle is usually advertised as having ‘only billions’ of positions, as the larger numbers are unfamiliar to many, but in truth there are a mind-boggling 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (forty-three quintillion) permutations and yet research has proved that all cubes can be solved within 26 moves. To put this into perspective, if one had as many 57-millimeter Rubik’s Cubes as there are permutations, one could cover the Earth’s surface 275 times.   …that native Hungarians and scientists of Hungarian origin received a Nobel Prize on more than 20 occasions? Hungarian inventions and inventors include the safety match (János Irinyi), the first electric motor (Ányos Jedlik), the Ford Model T (József Galamb), the ballpoint pen (László Bíró), Vitamin-C (Albert Szent-Györgyi), the hydrogen bomb (Ede Teller), the binocular (József Petzvál) and digital computing (János Neumann), to mention only the most famous creations.   …that Hungarians were the first masters of commercial air travel? In spite of the fact that aerial navigation is not associated with him, it was Dávid Schwarz who invented the aluminum-made airship, which became well-known later as the Zeppelin. The Hungarian inventor did not live to see the day when the first test flight was held, and Zeppelin bought the plans from Schwarz’s widower and made this method of transport world famous.   …that Semi-automatic cameras and film-cameras were also designed by Hungarians? József Mihályi’s Super Kodak Six 20 camera was first presented in the New York World Expo in 1939, and is accepted as being the first camera with automatic exposure. It was not a great success due to its enormously high price: $3,200 adjusted for inflation. Kodak employees had also nicknamed it ‘the boomerang’ for its regular returns, as it was highly unreliable.   …how good Leó Szilárd was at making up bombs? Leó Szilárd was the first one to come up with plans for a nuclear reactor, and theUS government actually bought the patent for one dollar. Years later Szilárd was directly responsible for the creation of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. Not happy about its use, he still couldn’t help himself and proposed the cobalt bomb that could theoretically destroy the planet.   Source: http://www.funzine.hu/2012-04-did-you-know-hungarian-inventions/

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