Technikatörténeti szemle 7. (1973-74)

MŰSZAKI SZAKMÚZEUMOK - Pál Vajda: Industrial Museums in Hungary (in English)

Central Mining Museum foundry work. It owes its exceptional character to the fact that the objects exhibited are on display in a natural environment: the one-time foundry. In this museum the objects on view and the building form an integral whole. The Budapest foundry established by Abraham Ganz in 1845, and was known throughout the world, survived to see its last working day in May 1964. It had made a reputation particularly through the production of chilled cast iron, using, the process patented by Ganz, and applied mainly to the manufacture of wheels for trolleys and street. Its projected close-down has led to suggestions in foundry circles that this more or less still unchanged foundry should be maintained as a technical memorial and, at the same time, provide a place where the development of the Hungarian foundry industry could be displayed. The exhibition on the evolution of metallurgy follows the 4000 years of bronze casting in the Carpathian Basin. In an original 19th century foundry the equipment used for production from moulding to casting, bronze and lead smelting furnaces, dies and all the tools of casting are exhibited. The model of aluminium and conti-