Tivadar Puskás

Tivadar Puskás ( born September 17, 1844 in Pest, † 16 March 1893, in Budapest) was a Hungarian inventor. He designed in Paris in 1879 and founded the first European Switchboard 1893 in Budapest the phone newspaper Phone Hírmondó.

Life

The study of engineering, he began in Vienna and ended it at the Technical University of Budapest. In 1866 he went to London. From 1873 he worked in the United States, where he was an employee of Thomas Edison. Between 1877 and 1886 he was Edison's representative in Europe. After Puskás's plans emerged in 1878 in Boston and in Paris in 1879, the first telephone exchanges. In 1879 he returned to Hungary and began with his brother with the construction of telephone exchanges in the field of Austria -Hungarian Empire. 1892 Puskás patented the technology that was behind the phone newspaper ( a forerunner of the radio) and founded in 1893, the newspaper phone phone Hírmondó.

" Hello ?"

As 1877 Puskás in Boston tested the prototype of a telephone system and at the other end for the first time heard the voice of his interlocutor, he is excited and screamed " Hallom! " ( Hungarian " I hear (you) " ) told his interlocutor before " hallod? " ( Hungarian " do you hear? " ) have asked. For this " Hallom " or " hallod " then to the "hello" or English used internationally. "hello" have arisen. Besides this, there are several other explanations for the origin of the word "hello".