Dezső Korda

The native form of this personal name is Korda Dezső. This article uses the Western name order.

Dezső Korda (French: Désiré or Desider 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. [1]

He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1907 for his scientific achievements.

References

  1. ↑ George Washington Pierce: Principles of wireless telegraphy, McGraw-Hill book company, New York, 1910, p. 114. (Photo of rotary capacitor of Korda).
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