Magyar News, 2004. szeptember-2005. augusztus (15. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

2005-02-01 / 6. szám

Edison dedicated this picture to the sister-in-law of Tivadar Puskás. He wrote that Puskás was the first in the world to invent the telephone exchange.

the radio. According to a contemporary scientific journal Edison’s telephone made it possible for 50 people to listen at the same time but if a 51st person was connected up none of the subscribers could hear anything. With Puskás’s apparatus by contrast half a million people could clearly hear the program coming from exchange. His telephone news service was in use for a total of 30 years before the radio

Looking for new problems to solve, in 1890 Puskás took out a patent for carrying out controlled explosions. This was the forerunner of modem techniques. He experimented with this procedure when he was working on regulating the Lower Danube. His work made it possible to have shipping through the full length of the Lower Danube.

Despite his many brilliant inventions including . Tivadar Puskás did not achieve the enormous success that he would deserve. This was partly a result of his early death. That time all Europe and even America showed interest in his work. He was preparing for a trip to carry on business in his suite in the Hungária Hotel when he suffered a heart attack on March 16, 1893, just shy of age fifty.

Edison sent this letter to Puskás

He, like many other Hungarian scientists and inventors, Tivadar Puskás’s name slipped into oblivion instead of receiving the fame and recognition that were his due.

HOLY-MOLEY

Magyar Nemzet:

Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány during his Vatican visit criticized harshly the Hungarian Catholic Church for its socalled interference in Hungarian internal politics. During the short papal audience Pope John Paul II in his welcoming speech reminded the Premier of the constructive cooperation which had resulted in 1997 - during Gyula Horn’s premiership - in the agreement to support the Hungarian Catholic Church in its social and religious duties.

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, secretary of state

of the Vatican urged the Hungarian Prime Minister to comply with the agreement between the Holy See and the Hungarian Republic and to convene the joint committee of the two states in order to discuss the controversial issues. The papal audience took place in the library of the Holy Father for a quarter of an hour while the talks with Cardinal Sodano took an hour in the Curia. Péter Harrach MP (Fidesz), deputy Speaker called the Premier’s behavior insolent and ill-mannered, as Mr Gyurcsány forced out the audience and abused the right of the guest though he should have known that the Church was obliged to inform the religious people about questions affecting the whole nation. ’This mentality of the Premier stands closer to that of Rákosi than to that of Kádár’, he added.

István Nyakó, spokesman of the Hungarian Socialist Party refused the criticism saying that Péter Harrach spoke about insolence though it was him who popularized the views of Fidesz from the pulpits every weekend. He said it was not a diplomatic blunder that Prime Minister Gyurcsány brought up the problem. Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó

As the famous Hungarian writer, Márai put it fifty years ago: „the communists will become real dangerous after they lose political power, since it is not the ideology they want to protect, but the prey they have plundered.”

The President of the Hungarian Parliament, Katalin Szili, visited New York this past fall. She spoke to the invited audience and after took questions. Somebody who saw the last issue of the Magyar News, just of the press, asked her about the Statue Park, where all the Soviet and Communist monuments are exhibited. Her answer was that there is no such thing. The article was in the November issue of the Magyar News.

On October 23 a demonstration march took place, visiting the Technical

University, the Bem Square, Parliament, Radio, etc. But the first place where they gathered and place their honor was the Statue Park. They should had started out at the cemetery where the bodies are of the Hungarian kids of Budapest, who fought the Soviet-Communist forces. I think they deserved the Honor and not those who massacred them. A half century passed and they already forgot what happened and they turn the world upside down!!!???

The pictures show a Parliament session, and the “X” marks the spot from where the President of the Parliament (Katalin Szili portrait here) makes here address.

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