Jens Ivo Engels: Die Geschichte der KorruptionVon der Frühen Neuzeit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert

Format: Kindle Edition. You can purchase it on Amazon.com The Hungarian edition was published by Corvina Publishing in 2016 and can be purchased at Libri. What Does Corruption Mean? It cannot be precisely defined. The general belief is that it belongs to pre-modern societies, a lingering affliction from the past that humanity must be cured … Read more

MOM 39/49 M Military Compass

The old veterans still know the MOM 39/49 M military compass well, which was widely used in the Hungarian People’s Army. In a photograph from the 1930s, the Africa explorer Count László Ede Almásy (the “English Patient”) also appears with such a device. Younger people sometimes marvel at it and ask on internet forums what … Read more

Rebuilding the Past: A 30 MHz TTL Frequency Counter from the 1978 MHSZ Design

This is a simple TTL-based lab frequency counter I originally built decades ago. At the time, I was a young student with very limited resources. Commercial laboratory instruments were completely out of reach, so I had no choice but to build my own. The design came from the Hungarian Defense Sport Association (MHSZ, Magyar Honvédelmi … Read more