Kiss Katalin: Industrial Monuments - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)
all the activities of the museum, for it has very variegated fields of presentation, research and services. Visitors are received with cordiality and informed about the activities of the museum. The exhibition rooms are named after the most illustrious personalities of Hungarian electronic technology: Ányos Jedlik, Ábrahám Ganz, Kálmán Kandó, Miksa Déri, Imre Bródy, Károly Zipernowsky and Ottó Bláthy. The majority of the exhibits in the Ganz-room on the first floor were produced by the Ganz Works or are connected with the Ganz factories. Here can be seen a cell of the 30/10 kV electric substation, an interesting monument of the history of electrotechnology. The Déri-room presents materials relating to assembly and installation, electrotechnical equipment and old domestic appliances. The Bródy-room displays items from the history of illumination. The exhibition continues on the second floor in the Zipernowsky-room, which displays measuring instruments. In the Bláthy-room the history of electric power stations is presented. Several facilities of the museum can be used by visitors: there is a specialist library, stamp and postcard collection, and a photo archive. The Steam Mills Gizella and Concordia IX, Soroksári út 20 and 24 Following the Óbuda Shipyard, the first steam mill in Pest was also built on the initiative and with the financial support of István Széchenyi. The József Steam Cylinder Mill in Lipótváros, near the Valero Silk Factory, was built at the end of the 1830s and began to produce in 1841. In mid-19th century Austria flour and other agricultural products could find a good market, thus corn merchants invested heavily in the construction of mills. Thirteen great steam mills were founded between 1860 and 1870. The most important were the József, Gizella, Concordia, Erzsébet and Lujza mills. The mills worked with thirty steam engines and employed more than three thousand workers. With the application of the Ganz-Mechwart rolling mills in chilled cast iron, excellent quality flour could be produced. This was a great improvement on the earlier mills where the equipment 37
