Ányos István Jedlik

 

Ányos István Jedlik

Ányos István Jedlik was born on January 11, 1800, two centuries ago, to a noble family in the Hungarian state of Szimo, the area is now known as Zemne, Slovakia. He died on December 13, 1895, at the age of 95 in Gyor, Hungary now known as Austria, Hungary.

Ányos is generally known as a Hungarian inventor, Engineer, Physicist and priest of Saint. Benedict.

Thus Ányos' s fame is due to his many Inventions, Scientific achievements and the publication of science related books, One of his scientific achievements was the invention of the world's first experimental electric vehicle in 1848

World First Experimental Electric Car

Ányos completed his higher education in 1825 in Nagyszombat, now called Trnava, Slovakia, and Press burg, now called Bratislava, Slovakia, And began experiments in 1827 to develop an electromagnetic rotating device, and after a year of tireless work, in 1828 demonstrated a successful experiment of driving a small car with the help of the world's first electric motor.

World's First Electric Motor

Named the Lightning Magnetic Self-Motor, the Ányos  motor is still on display at the Budapest Museum and is still fully operational today.

Joined Saint Benedict's School in 1839 as an lecturer, Later he joined the University of Budapest as Professor of Physics and Mechanics at the University of Science and was elected Rector of the University in 1863. Ányos was the first and only Hungarian professor to start teaching his students in the local Hungarian language instead of Latin language.

At the same time, on the advice of his cousin Gergely Czyczor, he developed the first Hungarian technical vocabulary of  Physics.

After being appointed Dean of the Department of Arts in 1848, he began experiments in optical and wave mechanics in 1850 and developed an excellent optical grade in the early days of 1860 in the light of these experiments.

Ányos elected a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1858 and later an honorary member in 1878.

After his retirement, Ányos continued his unfinished work and spent the last moments of his life in secret, and died on December 13, 1895, at the age of 95, in Gyor, Hungary.

Thus, Ányos played a key role in innovating the Scientific, Technical and Educational fields, including the invention of the prototype dynamo and the tubular voltage generator.

The following are the books published by Ányos

• Public Examination on Physics (1839)

• Public Examination on Physics for the Royal Hungarian University (1845)

• Applied science

• Compound of Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics (1847)

• Elements of Natural Science (1850)

• Supplements for Science of Still and calm water (1850)

• Science of  Light (1851)

• Science of  Heat (1990)

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