"Ottó Titusz Bláthy (11 August 1860 – 26 September 1939) was a Hungarian electrical engineer. In his career, he became the co-inventor of the modern electric ...
transformer, the tension regulator, the AC watt-hour meter.motor capacitor for the single-phase (AC) electric motor,[citation needed] the turbo generator, and the high-efficiency turbo generator.[citation needed]
Bláthy's career as an inventor began during his time at the Ganz Works in 1883. There, he conducted experiments for creating a transformer. The name "transformer" was created by Bláthy.[citation needed] In 1885 the ZBD model alternating-current transformer was invented by three Hungarian engineers: Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri and Károly Zipernowsky. (ZBD comes from the initials of their names). In the autumn of 1889 he patented the AC watt-meter." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021)