Mrs. Zipernowsky

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Mrs. Zipernowsky

Anna (aka Ilona) Zipernowsky was a Hungarian pacifist and feminist who was married to Karoly Zipernowsky. She was elected as the Hungarian delegate to the committee of the International Peace Bureau at the Universal Peace Congress in Brussels in 1909 and was a member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. Electical engineers Karoly Zipernowsky, together with Otto Titusz Blathy and Miksa Deri, of the Ganz Factory won a Nobel peace prize for their invention of the transformer in 1885, which was the basis of alternative current (AC) power distribution networks.

Mrs. Zipernowsky