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Leo Szilard Telephone Card
<HTML> <!--Copyright 2000 by Gene Dannen (gene@dannen.com) --> <!--Created March 15, 2000 --> <!--relative links modified 22 August 2002 for new server --> <HEAD> <TITLE>Leo Szilard Telephone Card</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" TEXT="#1010A0" LINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#00ff00" VLINK="#ff0000"> <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Leo Szilard Telephone Card</H1> <CENTER><TABLE WIDTH="550"><TR><TD> <CENTER><IMG SRC="images/telcrd1a.jpg" WIDTH=175 HEIGHT=266 ALT="telephone card, front"> <IMG SRC="images/telcrd1b.jpg" WIDTH=272 HEIGHT=179 ALT="telephone card, back"></CENTER> <P><FONT SIZE="+2">I</FONT><FONT SIZE="+1">n October 1997, the Hungarian telephone company <A HREF="http://www.matav.hu/">MATAV</A> honored the approaching centennial of Leo Szilard's birth by issuing a commemorative telephone card.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="+2">T</FONT><FONT SIZE="+1">he front of the card showed Szilard in a photograph by Tita Binz. The back of the card showed the glowing core of a nuclear reactor, the possibility of which Szilard had foreseen on a London street-corner in 1933.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="+2">E</FONT><FONT SIZE="+1">ach card was valid for 50 units of telephone usage. 100,000 cards were issued.</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Copyright © 2000 Gene Dannen<BR> Created: March 15, 2000<BR> URL: http://www.dannen.com/telcard.html<BR> <A HREF="home.html"><EM>Gene Dannen / gene@dannen.com</EM></A></P> <P><IMG SRC="images/red_arr.gif" WIDTH=13 HEIGHT=13 ALT="*"> UP to <A HREF="szilard.html">Leo Szilard Online</A></P> </TD></TR></TABLE></CENTER> </BODY></HTML>