births
August 11, 1860
Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (died 1939)
Ottó Bláthy
Ottó Titusz Bláthy was a Hungarian electrical engineer. During his career he became the co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the voltage regulator, the AC watt-hour meter, the turbo generator, the high-efficiency turbo generator and the motor capacitor for the single-phase (AC) electric motor.