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

(Sturgeon-in Hungarian viza, hence the name of the suburb Vizafogó, i.e. sturgeon-fishery-belongs to the ganoid class of fish. It can reach eight metres and weigh 160 kilos. It has a short nose with flat moustache and its body is covered with hard flat scales. It lives in the Black Sea, and its eggs are used for preparing the world-famous Russian caviar. Black Sea sturgeons were sometimes attracted by the city’s warm water springs at the bottom of the Danube, and they came in order to lay their eggs here. Since the end of the last century they have appeared increasingly rarely because of waterway construction and heavy shipping traffic. The last recorded sturgeon was found here in 1908.)

The Láng Machine Works XIII, Váci út 152-156

In the beginning it was a little machine repairing workshop, opened by László Láng in 1868 in Váci körút (today Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út). Five years later it moved to Váci út, where it began to produce steam engines. In the course of some years it drove out foreign competition from the Hungarian market, and also developed important eastern export sales. From 1885 it took part, in

Újpest workers on an excursion in the Solymár forests, 1908

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