László Verebélÿ

He attended the Pestian Graduate Grammar School and then earned a mechanical engineering diploma at the Royal József University in 1906.

He also contacted Kálmán Kandó, who was head of the Societe Italiana Westinghouse electric locomotive factory in Italy.

In 1913 Verebélÿ moved to Vado Ligure with his family and participated in the planning and production of the two most successful Kandó locomotives for express trains.

The western part of the country was favoured because the Treaty of Trianon had less truncated this area, the railway network remained unchanged, and most of the industry was settled there.

The power plants to be built to the east of the Danube were designed to supply the industrial area near Miskolc and to create the electrical base of the Great Hungarian Plain.

This raised the interest of English financial circles, and after long negotiations, they made an offer in 1926, some of which was guaranteed by the British Treasury.

Kandó's idea of supplying the railway from the industrial-frequency (50 Hz) power system complemented Verebely's electricity management plans.

In 1930 he drew world attention to the work of Ányos Jedlik (1800-1895) a Hungarian scientist, inventor and Benedictine monk.