Technikatörténeti szemle 22. (1996)

Papers from the Second International Conference on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Industry (Eger, Hungary, 16–19 August, 1995) - Vámos, Éva Katalin: Contributions to the History of the Association of Hungarian Chemical Industrials

ens of these countries have no more been allowed to be either assistants or privat-docents (p. 279).

35 It is reported that crude naphtha production in Galicia has become jeopardized by the sudden advance of Russian troops and the capture of Lemberg (p.280).

36 We can read about the effect of the German export embargo on the industries of Great Britain and France (p. 280), but also about the fact that the embargo had hit, in the first place, the German anilin dye industry; particularly the export centre Hamburg suffered from it: its stores were full (p. 281 ).

37 On the same page we can read about setting up a war loan-fund. The column "Industrial Copyright Protection" deals in brief with the question whether the patents might lose their validity in enemy countries through deprivation of civil rights during the war (p. 281).

38 Issue No. 20-21 of November 5 reports on the session of the Association's Presidential Council, where the raw materials supply and the exemption from military service were dealt with. According to the stand-point of the Association only the exemption of those leading technicians might be supported the factory could not be run without.

39 On the same page an article discusses what the conquest of Belgium might mean for the future development of the German chemical industry. On page 293 we can read about the chemical plants jeopardized by the Russian irruption.

40 Hungary's foreign trade turnover in 1914 is given in a tabulated form (pp. 293-294): the effect of the three-week discontinuance of the transport of goods by rail owing to mobilization is discussed.

41 In a short communication we learn that the section (faculty) of economy would be inaugurated at the Technical University, for the time being in the form of a 1-year course (p. 294).

42 Issue No. 1 of Volume XIII (January 12, 1918) enlists the 19 industrial branches that belong to the sphere of the Association 43 We can read about the holiday granted, for their exams, to the students in their last year at the Technical University doing their military service. An article deals with the question of the production of surrogates for washing agents (i.e. about washing agents free of fatty acids, with the active principle ammonium carbonate), and we learn about the fact that a National Office for Soap distribution was in operation. It regulated manufacture and turnover of toilet soaps: only 1 bar of soap would be sold to one customer on one occasion. We learn that, for the increased utilisation of natural forces (water power, natural gas, peat instead of coal) the minister of transitional economy has established an energy section; furthermore, we learn about the reduction of the raw material demand of the potato starch industry in order to assure the population's food supply. We can also learn that the state railways have again raised the tariffs of industrial goods transports. The enumeration of the newly founded