Hungary has always been a ‘hotbed’ of technological excellence. Over the last century a disproportionally large number of inventions were conceived by Hungarians, or 1st-generation Hungarian emigrants. Some of these in no particular order among many others: holography, color television, the ballpoint pen, the helicopter, the moon rover, the automatic gearbox, the carburetor, nuclear engineering, the binary computer, full length motion pictures, the California wine industry, safety matches, the Ford model T and on and on. All the brainchildren of Hungarians.
Many among them loyally served their immediate and broader communities and made great contributions to grand endeavors, such as Joseph Pulitzer, after whom the Pulitzer Prize was named, who bought New York World magazine and made himself wealthy and successful, what would today be called a Media mogul. It was about this time that France gifted the USA with one of its premier symbols of freedom, the Statue of Liberty. New York city did not underwrite the assembly and erection of the unique monument. That is when Pulitzer created a fund to collect contributions for its construction, publishing the name of every contributor in his by that time successful and popular magazine. The result can still be seen today, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Some of the many notable Hungarian pioneers, inventors, and geniuses from various fields are seen below. Simply click on the thumbnail images or turn the pages to explore their contributions to our modern society.
