Bust of István Ányos Jedlik

Life: ; Hungarian physicist, born in Szimőn on 11 January 1800, died in Győr on 13 December 1895 ; He completed his secondary school studies in Nagyszombat and Bratislava. In Pannonhalma he entered the Order of Saint Benedict in 1817. He taught at the secondary school and then at the Benedictine lyceum in Győr. He continued his teaching career in Bratislava from 1831, then in 1840 he took up the physics department at the University of Pest, where he worked for 38 years. The first physics textbook was published in 1850: the Elements of Physics. Unfortunately, only the first part of this was completed in full: The Physics of Heavy Bodies. Another part would have been Thermodynamics, which was preserved in a 66-page manuscript in the Main Abbey Library in Pannonhalma. This manuscript was published in 1990 by the Technical Publishing House under the title Thermodynamics. ; In 1858, he was elected a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, without having previously become a corresponding member. In 1863, he became rector of the university. For his work, he received the title of royal councilor and the Order of the Iron Crown. After retiring, he retired to Győr for the last years of his life. ; His practical inventions are also significant: he made a soda water-making machine, a dividing machine, and optical gratings. However, his greatest achievements were in the field of electricity. Having learned about the inventions of Oersted, Ampère, and Schweigger, he turned with particular interest to electromagnetism. His two great discoveries in this field were: electromagnetic rotations and the dynamo principle. He described three such rotating structures: in the first, the galvanic current conductor is in a fixed position and the electromagnet rotates, in the second, the electromagnet is fixed and the current conductor rotates around it, in the third, he also replaced the multiplier wire with an electromagnet. ; In 1829, he created the world's first practical electric motor, as he called it: the "electrical-delayed rotor". ; He preceded Siemens by six years with the idea of the dynamo-electric machine, but he did not communicate his research results to the scientific world, therefore the invention of the machine is attributed to Siemens. (1867) Jedlik's device, together with his own instructions for use, can be found in the Library of the Pannonhalma Archabbey. ; At the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition, his "tubular electric collector" was exhibited, and he was awarded the international jury's progress medal. ; Let us not forget his language innovation: the following words can be attributed to him, for example: piston, resultant, wire, torque, volume, as well as the expressions state of matter and wave deflection. As an interesting fact, we can also mention his linguistic inventions that have since been forgotten: instead of ion: heaven, instead of anion and cation: input and output. ; ; Sculpture Inauguration: ; On October 30, 1993, the bust of Ányos Jedlik, the work of sculptor György Lipcsey, was inaugurated. ; The ceremony was organized by the mayor of Szímő, István Morvai, and the members of the Jedlik Memorial Committee (Éva Kantár, Éva Csémy, Gizella Csontos and the Szímői Foundation of the Csemadok). ; The program of the inauguration ceremony: ; - Laying a wreath on the Jedlik memorial plaque placed on the wall of the school, a mass in the church with the participation of the deacon Zoltán Ďurčo, unveiling the bust of Ányos Jedlik, and the consecration of the memorial plaque (celebratory speaker Pál Csáky, performers Mátyás Dráfi and the Concordia mixed choir). ; - Opening of the Ányos Jedlik memorial exhibition from the materials of the Budapest National Technical Museum - opened by Dr. Ferenc Szabadvári, director general; - Seminar on the work of the physicist, András Nagy, researcher of Jedlik Szímői, members of scientific societies, commemoration of the 880th anniversary of the village - presentation of the village's monograph "Lifestyle Studies in the Váh Valley" by Magda Szapu; Guests: Tibor Szabó from the Association of Transnational Hungarians, dr. József Halz, president of the Rákóczi Association and the then-established Budapest Jedlik Ányos Society, Katalin Plócz from the ELTE Physics Society, teachers and students of the Csepel Jedlik Ányos High School and the Győr Benczés High School, István Farkas, mayor of the Tab twin city, Szilvia Sunyovszky and László Szabó from the Bratislava MKI, János Filakovszky, member of parliament, Gyula Hodossy from the Scout Association, Jedlik relatives from Vienna, Bratislava, Košice and Szombathely.