Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 66-68. (Budapest, 1973)

TANULMÁNYOK - Bugyi Balázs: Az iparegészségügy kezdetei Magyarországon (1928-ig) (angol nyelven)

ness of handicraft, began first to assume a more industrial character. Established at that time was the cloth factory of Gács*, followed in short periods of time by those of Ugróc,** Pozsony***, Kőszeg and Buda. The machines for all these textile works were supplied by factories of Austria and Bohemia. The silk mill of Óbuda established at an order of Joseph II in 1781, was running under management of Ágoston Mazzuccato with 40 looms and was the first to employ a silk yarn reeling machine in 1784. More weaving mills under royal support were set up at Kassa**** and Munkács***** with the principal purpose to supply plenty of cloth for the army to cut soldiers uniforms from it. Other industrial plants from that period include sugar mills in Fiume****** and Sopron ; faience factories at Tata and Buda ; a coach building plant at Buda; and a number of glass houses with several thousand workers in the Gömör region.

******* István Széchenyi, Hungary's great genius and pioneer of economic advance in the reform period, added a "Cylinder Mill Society" to the many industrial, commercial and communication unions he had called into being. His idea of the cylinder mill as a modern branch of industry was to make Hungarianproduced flour sell readily on the Austrian market by substituting steam powered fine-grinding methods for the earlier employed but outdated procedures of wind-mills, water-mills and horse-driven rotary mills. Volunteering to carry his idea into effect were the brothers Haggenmacher of Switzerland who guided Hungary's cylinder-mill industry on the path of rapid advance as from the mid- 19th century and emerged as owners of the Pannónia Cylinder Mill where 6 million quintals of wheat were ground to fine flour in 1890. Another man whom Széchenyi let come from Switzerland was Abraham Ganz who set up in 1844 a small workshop of seven workers to build the first steam engines for the Cylinder Mill Society and a little later finished the supporting iron pillars for the Chain Bridge, according to designs by over the Danube the english engineer Adam Clark. The workshop was flourishing and its flawless products made it soon grow into a plant of appreciable size. This was the origin of Ganz Works who earned awards of distinction at international exSeal of the burghers of Selmecbánya (i3th-i4th century) * Today Halic in Czechoslovakia. ** Today Uhrovec in Czechoslovakia. *** Today Bratislava in Czechoslovakia. **** T

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