Pattantyús-Abraham

* Selmecbánya, December 11, 1885 – † Budapest, September 29, 1956 / mechanical engineer, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1945), Kossuth Prize winner (1952) ; ; His father was Márton Pattantyús-Ábrahám (Trencsén), his mother was Ilona Pöschl, the daughter of the distinguished Selmecbánya academic teacher, Ede Pöschl. His younger brother was Imre Pattantyús-Ábrahám (Illava). He attended elementary school in Illava. He graduated from the Royal Catholic University High School in Budapest in 1903, and then in 1907 he obtained a mechanical engineering diploma from the Royal Joseph Technical University. He then became an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering under Professor Károly Zipernowsky. In 1910 he made a study trip to Germany, England, Belgium and the United States. After returning home, he taught continuously at the József Technical University. From 1912, he worked as an assistant professor at the II. Department of Mechanical Engineering, and in 1930, Doná Bánki was appointed as his successor as a public full professor at the III. Department of Mechanical Engineering. The department was later renamed the Department of Water Machinery. In addition to his teaching work, he also carried out private engineering activities between 1909 and 1930: he planned and led the electrification of several small towns, dealt with the utilization of natural gas in Hajdúszoboszló, designed elevator equipment and participated in the design of Ganz and MÁVAG pumps and other water machines, and in the 1930s and 1940s – as an expert – in the construction of various pumping stations. His method for sizing the air chambers of piston pumps is known worldwide as the Pattantyús method. With his half-century of teaching and professional literature, he played an outstanding role in the dissemination and development of Hungarian technical culture. He educated excellent specialists. He published the material of his lectures in numerous notes and textbooks: 36 of his professional books and more than a hundred technical studies, as well as articles dealing with engineering education, were published. He edited the Mechanical Engineering Pocket Book, which was awarded the gold medal by the Hungarian Society of Engineers (1937). In recognition of his pioneering work, the Mechanical Engineers and Electrical Engineers Pocket Book, published since 1960, was later named after him. He edited the journals Technika and Magyar Technika (1928–1954), the University of Technology Bulletins and many other publications. In 1957, the Hungarian Society of Engineering Scientific Association established the Pattantyús-Ábrahám Géza Memorial Medal. He was a popular teacher ("Uncle Patyi"), many nice stories and anecdotes were recorded about him. ; ; His main works: ; ; Lifting machines, 1927, ; Circuits, 1942, ; The mechanics of machines, 1944, ; Elevators, 1945, ; Mechanical oscillations, 1952.