Technikatörténeti szemle 11. (1979)
CONTENTS STUDIES József KOREK The beginnings of the Hungarian Technical Museum, the reconstruction of the handi-craft collection of the Hungarian National Museum, as the press saw it. (In Hungarian) ......................................... 11 F erenc The role of the state in supporting the scientificSZABADVÁRY— technical progress in Hungary before 1914. (In György FEHÉR German) ................................................................................ 31 Pál VAJDA Creative Hungarians in mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, technical sciences and industry. A selected bio-bibliography ......................................... 35 L ászló MAKKAI L’apport de l’Europe orientale ä Involution des moyens de transport: cheval-étrier-char ................ 75 K lára DÖKA The regulation of the river Rába (1762—1895) (In Hungarian) ........................................................................... 85 József SZILÁRD The contacts of Roland Eötvös with the search for the North Pole. (In Hungarian) ........................................ 103 É va VÁMOS— Medical opinion upon a foundry process in the Ferenc XVIIIth century. (In Hungarian) ............................ 113 S ZABADVÁRY Lajos BARTHA, Jr. The plans of Károly Braun for a spectroheliograph. (In Hungarian) ...................................................... 119 Pál VALENTINY Economic and technical problems in the electrical industry of the XIXth century. (In Hungarian) ... 127 Tibor PALÁGYI On the screw. (In Hungarian) ...................................... 133 G yörgy FEHÉR The spread of mechanization of harvesting, with special regard to the business activity of the firm McCormick in Hungary (1850—1900). (In Hungarian) 143 Lajos BARTHA, Jr. Hungarian astronomers in the Past (2nd Part). (In Hungarian) ................................................................... 169 8
