Technikatörténeti szemle 14. (1983-84)

TANULMÁNYOK - Móra László: A technológiai iparmúzeum negyvenéves története (1883–1923)

addition to the museal tasks, it performed also technical examinations, experiments, organized exhibitions, announced lectures and courses in order to enlargen the knowledge of experts interested in technics. It strived for arising and keeping up the attention for the technical development by the demonstration of the significant relics of home industry. At the change of centuries 1899—1900, its collection included some 36 993 pieces (7823 books and journals). Both the permanent and temporary exhibitions were visited by a great number of people, e. g. during the first 12 years more than half a million people (519 591 persons). In 1907 the museum got a new director, Karoly Gaul and since that time it became and independent organization. Several great towns of the country were spots of more hundred courses, where between years of 1907 and 1918 altogether 50 000 industrial workers have been taught the most up-to-date technological processes (autogenous welding, galvanoplasty, etc.). While the experimental activity and material analysis increased at that time, simultaneously, however, the museal activity has gradually decreased and later even ceased. World War I interrupted the promising development of the museum and in the course of the following difficult economic situation, the Technological Industrial Museum was closed, and instead, by the fusion of several institutions an institutes for experimentation and material analysis was established also in an official from in 1921—23.