Kiss Katalin: Industrial Monuments - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

up to 1964. However, the gradual demolition of the surrounding Ganz Works began already in the thirties, when the spreading inner city reached the polluting factories which had been established in the former suburbs.

Nevertheless, the foundry building became restored and has survived as the last witness of the legendary Ganz Works. The Foundry Museum has found a home here and contains some unique material:- the original installation of the Ganz chill-cast foundry, in good working order;- an exhibition about the history of iron, steel and other metal casting in Hungary;- old casting installations, with an exhibition presenting the history of casting technologies;- an open-air exhibition of old casting products;- the Abrahám Ganz commemorative exhibition.

The Ganz Electric Works II, Lövőház utca 4

The first electric works in Hungary was the Ganz Electric Works, installed in 1876 in the courtyard of a little house in Budapest’s Kacsa utca, where the first Hungarian DC dynamo was produced. It was here in 1884 that three Hungarian engineers, Károly Zipernowski, Ottó Bláthy and Miksa Déri made a world-famous invention-a modern transformer and distribution system, which made it possible to conduct of electric current over long distances. The new invention opened the world market to the electric products and installations of the Ganz Works. The first generating plants and lighting systems in the great cities of the world-Vienna, Budapest, Rome, Milan, Marseille, Buenos Aires, Melbourne and St. Petersburg-were set up by the Ganz Works at the end of the last century.

The Lövőház utca factory was built in 1897. It operated well above the international standards and employed nearly two thousand workers. Between the two world wars the factory produced the equipment necessary for the development of Hungary’s electrification, contributing, for example, to the electrification of the Budapest-Hegyeshalom railway line. In the Second

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