{"id":2573,"date":"2013-08-11T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-11T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T11:01:07","slug":"transforming-otto-blathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/08\/11\/transforming-otto-blathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming Otto Blathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/franklycurious.com\/media\/1\/20130811-blathyotto.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Otto Blathy\" title=\"Otto Blathy\" align=\"left\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px;\" \/>The early Classical period composer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Schuster_(composer)\">Joseph Schuster<\/a> was born on this day back in 1748. He was mostly known for his operas, but he also wrote a lot of music for small string sections. In fact, his Milan Quartets were long thought to be by Mozart. Here is his <i>String Quartetto No. 5<\/i>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;width:267px;height:25px;overflow:hidden;margin: auto;text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"position:absolute;top:-276px;left:-5px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CVGvggCJZU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lloyd_Nolan\">Lloyd Nolan<\/a> was born in 1902. He is best known for his role as the father in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hannah-Her-Sisters-Woody-Allen\/dp\/B00005O06J\/ref=sr_1_1?tag=frankcurio-20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hannah and Her Sisters<\/a><\/i>, even though he was dead of cancer at the age of 83 by the time of the film&#8217;s release. The great Japanese film composer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Y%C5%ABji_Koseki\">Yuji Koseki<\/a> was born in 1909. Here is a classic of his, &#8220;Mothra&#8217;s Song&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;width:267px;height:25px;overflow:hidden;margin: auto;text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"position:absolute;top:-276px;left:-5px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9lmZRRqF6wA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angus_Wilson\">Angus Wilson<\/a> was born in 1913. Historian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alex_Haley\">Alex Haley<\/a> was born in 1921. Talk show host <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Douglas\">Mike Douglas<\/a> was born in 1925. <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cool-Hand-Luke-Deluxe-Edition\/dp\/B0019UGYK0\/ref=sr_1_2?tag=frankcurio-20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cool Hand Luke<\/a><\/i> director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stuart_Rosenberg\">Stuart Rosenberg<\/a> was born in 1927. Evil Christian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Falwell\">Jerry Falwell<\/a> was born in 1933.<\/p>\n<p>More or less the inventor of crystallographic electron microscopy, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aaron_Klug\">Aaron Klug<\/a> is 87.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marilyn_vos_Savant\">Marilyn vos Savant<\/a> is 67. She is said to be very smart. I&#8217;ve never gotten that impression. She is, however, a pretentious asshole. Apple co-founder (the living one) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Wozniak\">Steve Wozniak<\/a> is 63. He&#8217;s the guy who said, &#8220;Apple is not a computer; it&#8217;s a lifestyle.&#8221; And he said it as if that were a good thing. Computers are tools. The whole &#8220;Apple lifestyle&#8221; business makes me sick. And the idiotic conservative affirmative action case, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Brooks_(journalist)\">David Brooks<\/a> is 52.<\/p>\n<p>The day, however, belongs to Hungarian electrical engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ott%C3%B3_Bl%C3%A1thy\">Otto Blathy<\/a> who was born on this day in 1860. He is best known for co-inventing the modern electrical transformer. So in a sense, the modern world is <i>his<\/i> fault. He invented a number of other important things, mostly having to do with alternating current. He also created chess puzzles. Truly a great man.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday Otto Blathy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early Classical period composer Joseph Schuster was born on this day back in 1748. He was mostly known for his operas, but he also wrote a lot of music for small string sections. 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