Magyar News, 1993. szeptember-1994. augusztus (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1993-11-01 / 3. szám
EVENTS OCT. 24, SUNDAY at 3:00 P.M. the Hungarian Committee of Norwalk will have a Memorial Service to honor the 1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighters of Hungary who fought so bravely against the Communist Tyranny. The service will be held in Freese Park, Main and Wall Street, Norwalk at the Hungary 1956 monument. All those who were participants in this Revolution should be there. Also other members of our community who love freedom should show their respect for those who gave their life for it. Recently there were many events in the Hungarian community. Two great picnics took place. St. Emery held their's in Shelton, Calvin UCC on their own grounds in Fairfield. First UCC in the United Hall organized the Annual Hungarian Festival, and the Holy Trinity B.C. Church going on three days had a big showing with their Annual Bazar. Hopefully we will be able to bring more information on these outstanding and successful events. We had two distinguished visitors from Hungary. Mayor Janos Bencsik from Fairfield's sistercity, ,Tatabanya, spent time among us. The public met him at a luncheon given at St. Emery's school. An other visitor was a journalist from Szeged hosted by the International Hospitality organization. EVENTS OF NOVEMBER 1993 NOVEMBER seems to be a quiet month before Christmas. NOV. 20, SATURDAY the Bessemer Center will have ARTS and CRAFTS FAIR from 10 to 4 P.M. They will also have the famous Hungarian foods and pastry. RESERVATIONS should be made for shows coming up in January. The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble is giving a performance on Jan. 18 in Stamford, and on Jan. 20 in New Haven. These dates are subscription ones, therefor the available seats are limited. Tickets are around $20.00. We might try going as a group. Please call 377-0569. BRIDGING THE GAP A very cordial meeting took place a few weeks ago. Mrs. Sara Balogh, president of the American Hungarian Pannónia Club, and Joseph Stiber, president of the American Hungarian Heritage Association, stopped at the Fairfield High School to say a welcome to two Hungarian students. Agnes Szabó and Tamas Beer came from Tatabanya, Hungary, to study here under the sister-city program. They were awarded financial assistance by the two Hungarian organizations. Dr. Alexander Havadtoy and Mr. Joseph Balogh also took part in the meeting. TO THE READER The Magyar News is given out free. You may pick it up at the Hungarian Churches and at some businesses. If you would like to have it delivered to your home, please send self-addressed, stamped envelopes to our address. If you are a paid-up member of the American Hungarian Heritage Association, for an extra $5.00 fee you will receive it to your home for a year without sending in envelopes. We also encourage our readers to send in news and articles to be published. We would like to see your contributions that will help produce this publication. Recently people subscribe to the Magyar News by sending $5.00 for postage and a donation to support the production of the monthly publication. These donation vary, and we really appreciate them. The convenience of this is that you receive it in the mail to your home every time. page 2 LONG BEFORE G.E. PURCHASED TUNGSTRAM It is very convenient to walk into a house when it is already dark and flip a switch that is located next to the opening of the door and you get instant light. In your mind the phenomena of light takes over and you are not concerned anymore about the switch, and even less about the lightbulb. Only when you have to drag the ladder out of the garage and get up to the fixture on the ceiling to change the bulb that had blown out just a few minutes before the guests arrive, do you think of that lightbulb. In those moments you would wish that these bulbs should last longer. Well don’t give up. Mankind is already on its way to success. Thanks to a Hungarian. If not for this person you would be dragging that ladder out of the garage more often, and you would avoid putting light fixtures on the ceiling. I am not trying to talk about the time when the filament of the bulb was so fragile that it broke from the slightest vibration, or it just burned away from a minute change in the electricity. I am talking about the modem filaments made of tungsten. A Hungarian who did a favor to all of us was Imre Brody. He graduated and receiveda Ph.D. in physics from the Budapest Pázmány Peter University. Brody’s Doctoral Thesis is still sought for study on the quantum theory of gases. First he became an educator and for some years was assistant professor to Professor Bom. When Brody reached the age of 30, he joined the newly organized research laboratory of the TUNGSTRAM Incandescent Lamp Company in Budapest. Brody worked here for over 20 years. During this time, besides the very outstanding research of theoretical value, he approached practical problems and production considerations too. As a result of this type of work, Brody invented the Krypton lamp that has a long life. It would be too technical to describe the scientific side of this invention. Brody replaced the usual gas in the bulb with a very heavy one, with krypton, therefore slowing down the evaporation of the heated filament. The major problem with this was that producing the krypton gas was so expensive that it could not be considered for mass production. But, could anyone stop a Hungarian? Well, Brody didn’t stop at this point. He invented a method of gaining krypton gas straight out of the air at a cost 100 times less than the usual price. We all should thank this Hungarian scientist for making our life more comfortable by shedding more light onto our bulbs. (CMB)
