Technikatörténeti szemle 7. (1973-74)

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

Ore and Mineral Mining Museum level to the coal bunker by a cage, and also for lifting the cars transporting slag from the shaft to the ground. Beside these technical relics several specimen cases display many written documents and material remains. The visitors can get acquainted with the different lamps used in the mines, beginning with the ceramic lucerna up to the lates battery operated headlights. The instruments, compasses, angle meters and level measuring instruments are in another vitrine. Selected samples of rocks and minerals of the Ajka coal basin, together with the index fossils of different stratigraphie levels bear witness of past geological ages. The contracts on mining rights, examples of old correspondence, photographs and drawings also remind us of times past. The documents of technical licences and other documents pertaining to the first shafts opened in 1872 are also seen here. Opposite to the building of the transport engine, the pithead building also survived togetherwith the pithead frame with all its accessories. The cases and display cabinets of the museum present material and written information on the hundred years of mining at Ajka. The Ore and Mineral Mining Museum at Rudabânya tells about a region of Hungary exceptionally rich in ore, and does it in a most suggestive way.

Tu addition to machinery and documents, the visitor finds there a rich and diverse collection of ores, various types of mine lights, and a fully furnished miner's home. On