Donát Bánki (born as Donát Lőwinger, 6 June 1859 – 1 August 1922) "The Contribution of Hungarians to Universal Culture" (with inventors), Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Damascus, Syria, 2006, webpage:
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. was a Hungarian mechanical

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and

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heritage. In 1893 he invented the

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for the stationary engine, together with

János Csonka János Csonka (22 January 1852 in Szeged – 27 October 1939 in Budapest) was a Hungarian engineer, the co-inventor of the carburetor for the stationary engine with Donát Bánki, patented on 13 February 1893. Life Csonka, self-educated in ...

(known as the Bánki-Csonka engine). The invention is often, incorrectly credited to the German

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, who submitted his patent half a year after Bánki and Csonka. Bánki also greatly contributed to the design of compressors for combustion engines. In 1898, Donát Bánki invented the high-compression engine with a dual carburetor, an evaporation method used ever since. The invention of the

helped the development of

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, as previously no method was known to correctly mix the fuel and air for engines. Some sources say that the idea of the

came from a flower girl. One evening, Bánki saw her while walking home from the

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. She was sprinkling water onto her flowers by blowing spray from her mouth. Bánki is also given partial credit for the invention of the crossflow turbine.''Acta technica'', Volume 45, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1964
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