Comments on: Hungarians have consistently proved good at odd things https://www.isegoria.net/2017/05/hungarians-have-consistently-proved-good-at-odd-things/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Dick Kovar https://www.isegoria.net/2017/05/hungarians-have-consistently-proved-good-at-odd-things/comment-page-1/#comment-2560043 Dick Kovar Mon, 19 Jun 2017 23:41:33 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41950#comment-2560043 An ancestor of mine crafted weapons against the Turks at an earlier time and was awarded a coat of arms depicting a Turk’s head severed by a scimitar blade. His name was Kovar, which means smith in the Czech language. As recently as my great great grandfather we were still well-regarded, prosperous smiths. A 20th Century metallurgical development is called the Kovar process.

]]> By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2017/05/hungarians-have-consistently-proved-good-at-odd-things/comment-page-1/#comment-2556712 Kirk Mon, 05 Jun 2017 06:51:26 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41950#comment-2556712 Odd historical coincidence, or continuing historical thread…

Orban, the gentleman who cast the siege guns for the Turks when they besieged Constantinople, was a Hungarian. Not sure why it is that the Hungarians didn’t parlay that early superiority at casting guns into later becoming an industrial powerhouse, but there you are… Superweapons of the era, designed and built by Hungarians for foreigners.

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