Károly Zipernowsky

Károly Zipernowsky
Károly Zipernowsky
Born
Carl Zipernowsky

(1853-04-04)4 April 1853
Died(1942-11-29)29 November 1942
EducationTechnical University of Budapest
Engineering career
InstitutionsGanz Works
Projectstransformer
alternating current

Károly Zipernowsky (born as Carl Zipernowsky, 4 April 1853 in Vienna 29 November 1942 in Budapest) was an Austrian-born Hungarian electrical engineer. He invented the transformer with his colleagues (Miksa Déri and Ottó Bláthy) at the famous Hungarian manufacturing company Ganz Works and he contributed significantly with his works also to other AC technologies.