The problem of low sensitivity to light resulting in low electrical output from transmitting or "camera" tubes would be solved with the introduction of charge-storage technology by Tihanyi in the beginning of 1924. After Tihanyi studied Maxwell's equations, he discovered a hitherto unknown physical phenomenon. Tihany's attention was already drawn to the attempts to create television during World War I. Luckily, he found a friend in Professor Imre Pöschl, who recognized his talent, while he could sell more and more patents and inventions, he could enjoy an increasing income, thus he could support his widowed mother and nine siblings. He designed a remotely controlled igniter for timing and detonating underwater shafts, and his land mine was credited as a distinguished military invention.Īfter World War I, Kálmán Tihanyi, who returned to civil life, continued his studies at the Royal Hungarian Joseph University of Technology in Budapest (today: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, commonly known as the Technical University), where the young man who has recently lost his father was left without any income. Soon, however, he was transferred to one of the most important military ports of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Pula, where he no longer served as a soldier in a combat unit, but as a radio engineer, and for the first time in his life he “tasted” military technical developments. His brave standing was awarded a bronze medal of valor and then the rank of lieutenant. As an officer candidate for the 4th Army Artillery Regiment, the young man first handled the roaring cannons on the eastern front and was then transferred to Transylvania, where he took part in the battles at one of the most important crossings in the Eastern Carpathians, the Ojtozi Strait.
At that time, he continued his high school studies in Vác, he graduated here as well, and the following year, in 1916, he entered the Hungarian Royal Army as a volunteer. The first contract of his life was signed with a Viennese company, which purchased his equipment for the central, wireless switching on and off of road lights. Career Early life, WW1 and education Graphic from Kálmán Tihanyi's "Radioskop" patent (1926) From European Patent Office abstract of Tihanyi's 1928 application Improvements in television apparatus Kalman Tihanyi as a scientist of British Air Ministry Graphic from Tihanyi's plasma display patent (1936)īorn in Üzbég, Kingdom of Hungary (now Zbehy, Slovakia), After graduating in the local elementary school, his parents enrolled him in the Vocational School of Electrical Engineering in Pozsony (now Bratislava), where he filed his first patent application for the Hungarian Patent Office in 1913, at the age of sixteen (!), The title of the patent was "Pocket device for light handling of photographic plates". His Radioskop patent was recognized as a Document of Universal Significance by the UNESCO thus became part of the Memory of the World Programme on September 4, 2001. He is also known for the invention of the first infrared video camera in 1929, and coined the first flat panel (plasma) display in 1936. He invented and designed the world's first automatic pilotless aircraft in Great Britain. One of the early pioneers of electronic television, he made significant contributions to the development of cathode ray tubes (CRTs), which were bought and further developed by the Radio Corporation of America (later RCA), and German companies Loewe and Fernseh AG. Kálmán Tihanyi or in English language technical literature often mentioned as Coloman Tihanyi or Koloman Tihanyi (28 April 1897 – 26 February 1947) was a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. University of Pozsony, BME University BudapestĮlectronic Television, Plasma Display, Infrared camera, Optically controlled automatic pilotless aircraft
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