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Phase-converter traction

1923TransportHungary

Engineer Kálmán Kandó worked out the phase-converter traction system by 1923, enabling high-voltage alternating-current railway traction. It was first used successfully on the Budapest–Hegyeshalom line.

Inventor
Kandó Kálmán (1869–1931)
Mechanical engineer
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