Holló Szilvia Andrea: Budapest's Public Works - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

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■ There are Cnglish language performances held in the Merlin. Annamária Láng and Roland Rába appearing in Dennis ICelly's play After the End

During the instalment of the 120 kV network, the majority of the substations were designed by the Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Design Company. These edifices are also redbrick buildings articulated by glass surfaces; among them are the ones in Katona József utca, Dob utca and Rumbach Sebestyén utca. The prototype of them all is the building in Csarnok tér (1965); by comparison the glass edifice of the load distribution centre in Petermann bíró utca (1978) is quite unique.

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The citizenry of the liminal settlement of the Roman empire called Aquincum used the abundant and healthy spring waters of the area (hence the Latin name of the town, a derivative of Ak-Ink, Celtic for profuse water). Water caught in terracotta canals was conveyed by way of surface conduits resting on vaults (aquaeductus). The aqueduct’s impressive ruins are in evidence to this day, but these can hardly be counted among the antecedents of Budapest's water supply system.

The first waterworks of Buda were built by in 1416 by Emperor Sigismund, who paid one thousand forints to pipesmith Hartmann of Nuremberg for siphoning the water of the Danube up to the royal palace. After 1476, under the reign of King Matthias, the wells of the civic town were also flowing with sweet water conveyed by lead or

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