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Tivadar Puskas was a contemporary of Thomas Edison, and was the inventor of the telephone exchange… the type you see in all the old movies, with one operator at a switchboard wearing one of those chunky headsets (a far cry from the modern Bluetooth headset) and listening in on everyone’s calls. After building the first subscriber style exchange in Europe, thereby inflicting a whole new avenue for gossip mongers upon the world, he died of a heart attack at age 49. He is interred in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest, Hungary.

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