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Telefon Hírmondó
The Telefon Hírmondó (also Telefonhírmondó, generally translated as "Telephone Herald") was a "telephone newspaper" located in Budapest, Hungary, which, beginning in 1893, provided news and entertainment to subscribers over telephone lines. It was both the first and the longest surviving telephone newspaper system, although from 1 December 1925 until its termination in 1944 it was primarily used to retransmit programmes broadcast by Magyar Rádió. Three decades before the development of radio broadcasting, the ''Telefon Hírmondó'' was the first service to electronically deliver a wide range of spoken and musical programming to a diverse audience. Although its inventor envisioned that the technology could be eventually expanded to serve a national or international audience, the technical limitations of the time ultimately limited its service area to just the city of Budapest. Establishment The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' was founded by Tivadar Puskás (a few reviews translated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tivadar Puskás
Tivadar Puskás de Ditró (in older English technical literature: Theodore Puskás) (17 September 1844 – 16 March 1893) was a Hungarian inventor, telephone pioneer, and inventor of the telephone exchange. He was also the founder of Telefon Hírmondó. Biography The Puskás family from Ditró (today Harghita County of Romania), was part of the Transylvanian Hungarian nobility. Puskás studied law and later engineering sciences. After living in England and working for the Warnin Railway Construction Company he returned to Hungary. In 1873, on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Vienna, he founded the Puskás Travel Agency, the fourth-oldest in the world and the first travel agency in Central Europe. After this, Puskás moved to Colorado and became a gold miner. It was while he was in America that Puskás exposed the American "energy machine" inventor Keely as a fraud. Puskás was working on his idea for a telegraph exchange when Alexander Graham Bell invented t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Telefon Hirmondo - Home Subscriber (1901)
Telefon may refer to: *Telefon (film), ''Telefon'' (film), a 1977 film directed by Don Siegel, starring Charles Bronson *"Telefon, Telefon", a song by Margot Hielscher *Telefon Bay, in the South Shetland Islands *Telefon Point, west of the entrance to Admiralty Bay, King George Island *Telefon Ridge, in the South Shetland Islands *Telefon Rocks, a group of rocks in King George Island, the South Shetland Islands *The Norwegian steamship SS Telefon, SS ''Telefon'' *"Telefon", by Jesper Kyd from the 2018 Indian film Tumbbad#Music, ''Tumbbad'' {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
