Hungarians Do It Best - Tribute to The Greatest Hungarians and Hungary

What better way to celebrate the end of year 2006 in my blog than to look back at the monumental and microscopic contributions of Hungarians to Humanity.

Could all these inventions and achievements have happened without the brilliant (or mad) minds of this small European country?
Probably yes but most likely not a chance in a million years.

Who really are Hungarians one might ask?
Some say the origins of Hungarians reach back to Extra Terrestrials from the famous Red Planet Mars.
The reasoning went like this: “The Martians left their own planet several eons ago and came to Earth; they landed in what is now Hungary; the tribes of Europe were so primitive and barbarian it was necessary for the Martians to conceal their evolutionary difference or be hacked to pieces.
Through the years, the concealment had on the whole been successful, but the Martians had three characteristics too strong to hide: their wanderlust, which found its outlet in the Hungarian gypsy; their language (Hungarian is not related to any of the languages spoken in surrounding countries); and their unearthly intelligence.”

What are those inventions or contributions of Hungarians? Are they significant or hardly worth mentioning? Are we talking about ONLY the goulash (gulyas), the paprika and Zsa Zsa Gabor?

A quick and definitely incomplete list of what Hungarians have given to the World:
absolute geometry, torsion balance, carburetor, transformer, electric bulbs with tungsten filaments and krypton charge, radioactive tracing, nuclear power plant, thermonuclear fusion, cooling tower, electric engine, supersonic flight, radar astronomy, new metric standard based on light, holography, radio, television, electronic computer, the first computer language: Basic, unleaded petrol, Vitamin C, theory of games assisting in making rational decisions and conduct, photographic objective lens, darkroom, perfection of the telescope, co-developing automatic camera, H-Bomb, Atomic Bomb, pioneering of the modern digital computer, first child insulin treatment in USA, NASA’s famous Moon Rover: home field advantage , helicopter, Rubic Cube, first European telephone exchange, ballpoint pen, electric transformer, watt meter, alternating current motor, turbo generator, electric train, famous Model T and Model A Ford, ignition plug, silent match, 33 1/3 LP record, electronic video recorder, 343-line color television system, Ex-Lax, secured credit card, designer Calvin Kline, plus musicians, entertainers, businessmen, sports figures and media moguls.

I know, I know, we could live without the H-Bomb and the Atomic Bomb, hopefully there is enough good karma to balance out the bad one.

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