About Dezső Korda
Lived 1864 – 1919 (aged 55). Dezső Korda was a Hungarian inventor and engineer.
Dezső Korda (8 January 1864 – 1 April 1919) was a mechanical engineer born in Kisbér, Hungary. Korda finished his education in 1885 at the Budapest, in Royal Joseph Technical University (present-day Budapest University of Technology and Economics). After that he worked as electrical engineer in France and Switzerland. During the First World War Korda was a lecturer at ETH Zurich for wireless telegraphy and high frequency machines.
He invented the variable capacitor with air dielectric, and received in Germany a patent for invention on 13 December 1893.
He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1907 for his scientific achievements.
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Who was Dezső Korda?
Hungarian engineer, inventor rotary capacitor. (1864–1919)
When was Dezső Korda born?
Dezső Korda was born on 8 January 1864 in Kisbér.
When did Dezső Korda die?
Dezső Korda died on 1 April 1919 in Zurich.
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Dezső Korda was an inventor and engineer.
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Dezső Korda was Hungarian.
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