Stephen Ányos Jedlik (Hungarian: Jedlik Ányos István) (January 11, 1800 – December 13, 1895) was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, Benedictine priest, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He is considered by Hungarians and Slovaks to be the unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor. Today he is the pride of both the Slovak and Hungarian nations.
He was born in a Hungarian village Szimő, Kingdom o...
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Stephen Ányos Jedlik (Hungarian: Jedlik Ányos István) (January 11, 1800 – December 13, 1895) was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, Benedictine priest, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He is considered by Hungarians and Slovaks to be the unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor. Today he is the pride of both the Slovak and Hungarian nations.
He was born in a Hungarian village Szimő, Kingdom of Hungary, (today Zemné, Slovakia).
Jedlik's education began at high schools in Nagyszombat (today Trnava) and Pozsony (today Bratislava). In 1817 he became a Benedictine and from that time continued his studies at the schools of that order. He lectured at Benedictine schools up to 1839, then for 40 years at the Budapest University of Sciences department of physics-mechanics. Only few guessed at that time that his beneficial activities would play an important part in bringing up a new generation of physicists.
In 1845 he began teaching his...
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