Technikatörténeti szemle 13. (1982)
TANULMÁNYOK - †Vajda Pál: A magyar villamosipar a múlt század iparkiállításain
21. L'Electricité a l'exposition 1900. 2—131. 22. Műszaki nagyjaink szerk. : Szőke Béla Budapest, 1967. II. 347. 1. 23. Gellért Mór: Ujabb kiállítások Budapest, 1915. 110. 1. SUMMARY ÉVA VAMOS — GABOR OSZETZKY: THE HUNGARIAN ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY AT THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS OF THE LAST CENTURY Electricy has been the center of interest of many exhibitions and demonstrations since the discovery of the phenomenon. The authors choose to summarise part of this subject i. e. the production and distribution of electricity and the participation of Hungarian inventions and products, connected to this, at the exhibitions. At the beginning of the 1880s the appearance of AC engines was in the center of interest. These were novelties at the electrical exhibitions in Munich (1882) and Vienna (1883) and at the Italian national exhibition in Torino in 1885. Hungarian results were important in the development of transformers and the parallel distribution system of electric energy in the second half of the 1880s. These were best represented at the national exhibition in Budapest in 1885. In the 1890s the measurement of the electric energy produced and transported to the users became important. A succesful Hungarian invention was the induction power meter. Hungarian electrical industry was best represented in this period at the Frankfurt electrical exhibition in 1891, at the Budapest Millenneum exhibition in 1896 and at the Paris world exhibition in 1900. Though scientific periodicals reported with enthusiasm on Hungarian inventions from the very beginning, our exhibitions catalogues and reports and daily papers acknowleged the existence of a well developed Hungarian electrical industry only as late as the Millenneum.
