Miksa Déri

(1854 – 1938)

Hydraulic engineer.

Engineer, director and Austrian representative of the Ganz factory. From 1889, he organized and equipped the electric power station in Vienna. His brush-type motors were mass-produced and used all over the world.

Invented: AC electric generator (with Károly Zipernowsky), the transformer (with Ottó Bláthy and Károly Zipernowsky, 1885), repulsion motor.

Credited with: the compensated DC machine (1898-1902), designing of the Danube and Tisza river control systems (1878-1882).

Miksa Déri