QTH Makó
Geographical location of Makó
Makó is located in the southeastern corner of the country, near the Romanian border, on the right bank of the Maros, 30 km east of the county seat, Szeged. It lies at the confluence of two historical landscapes: the meadow and the field.
The climate is warm; the summer is dry and hot. The weather is extreme; high daytime temperatures are followed by nighttime cooling. It is characterized by a hot summer climate. This is where most summer days (85-90) occur in Hungary, the average annual temperature is 10.9°C. The average annual number of hours of sunshine exceeds 2,100, making it one of the richest regions in the country in sunlight. Precipitation is low, with an annual average of 585 mm.
Makó is 82 m above sea level and the average floodplain area to the west is 79 m. The hydrogeographical position of Makó is determined by the ancient water system of the Maros and Szárazér. Geologically, most of the city's topsoil is loess, the western half is meadow clay and sandy loam near the Maros.
World famous Makó
József Galamb (1881-1955)
József Galamb was born in Makó and studied in Budapest, the legal predecessor of today's Bánki Donát Technical College. After obtaining his degree in mechanical engineering, he worked for a short time as a technical draftsman at the Iron Factory in Diósgyőr, and then at Magyar Automobil Rt., where he won a study trip to Germany. In 1903 he visited several German cities, working as a skilled worker everywhere. It was then that he heard about the 1904 American Car World's Fair, so with his money saved, he traveled to America by boat in October. He worked at Westinghouse Works as a tool maker.
He joined the then barely two-year-old Ford Motor Company in December 1905 as a designer. After redesigning the cooling system of the N-model, he became the main designer of the factory, and he designed many important parts of the famous T-model. From 1915 he worked on the designs of the Fordson tractor. In 1921, he founded a scholarship for poor students from Makó who wanted to study at a higher industrial school. During the First World War he was involved in the editing of war machines, e.g. submarine locator. During World War II, Ford designed the idea of a six-cylinder cart, which was completed in 1942. In 1944 he retired from active work.
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József Pulitzer (1847-1911)
József Pulitzer, better known worldwide as Joseph Pulitzer (Makó, April 10, 1847 - Charleston (South Carolina, USA), October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-born American journalist and newspaper publisher. He was the son of a Hungarian Jewish crop trader from Makó, Philip Pulitzer, and Elize Berger, born in Pest. His younger brother, Albert, who also followed Joseph to America, was raised as a priest, but did not reach the ordination. Of the family’s eight children, only four survived childhood. József had already completed his secondary school in Pest, where his father had moved (according to other sources in Vienna). The family became impoverished after the early death of his father (1858).
Joseph wanted to enter the military, but was rejected due to his poor health and vision. He also tried in vain with the Austrian army, the French foreign legion, and the British army in India. (Allegedly, the whole adventure started with a slap in the face for his arithmetic teacher and then he escaped to Paris. In the summer of 1864, at the age of 17, he emigrated against the will of his mother and took part in the American Civil War on the northern side (similar to many members of the Hungarian emigrant generation after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-49).
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