Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1998
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This was the period when Gábor Baross accomplished his great reforms, in railway nationalisation and goods and passenger transport, and his construction of the Iron Gates [regulation of the Danube], His work, conducted under iron discipline and order, was broken off by his untimely death on 9 May 1892. Known as the Iron Minister by virtue of his working capacity, Gábor Baross played an outstanding part in the history of Hungarian communications. By merging the post office and the telegraph service (1887), drafting the first major telecommunications law, setting up an experimental telecommunications station, and supporting the Hungarian electrical industry, he started off epochal development in Hungarian telecommunications. Ferenc Puskás was bom in Pest on 28 March 1848. He studied at the Buda Gimnázium and the Theresianum in Vienna. In 1865 he entered the army. His elder brother, Tivadar Puskás, working for Edison, started the installation of the telephone network in Paris in 1878. Because of pressure of work, he asked his younger brother to go on leave and find out about the telephone. After an extended study tour, Ferenc decided to exchange the life of a soldier, with its secure living, for a noble cause: the foundation of the Hungarian telephone network. Tivadar Puskás transferred his rights to represent the European Edison Telephone Company on Austro-Hungarian territory to Ferenc, who submitted his petition for the establishment of the telephone system to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport on 28 July 1879. He received the certificate of permission on 20 May 1880, covering a period of 20 years. He faced many difficulties as he approached his task. By force of great stamina and industry, he overcame every barrier. The first telephone exchange started operation on 1 May 1881 in a third-floor room in Fürdő u. 10. He also received permission for the telephone system proposed for Temesvár (Timisoara), but, exhausted by his work, he fell ill and was unable to complete it. Hearing of his illness, Tivadar came home at once from Paris and took over the work, asking for the telephone permit to be transferred to himself. By its order no. 13 115, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport accepted his application on 6 May 1883, but altered the licence terms. Ferenc Puskás did not recover from his illness, and died on 22 March 1884. The Fürdő utca telephone exchange that opened on the first day of May 1881 started its operation with 50 subscribers. By August of the same year there were three exchanges in operation, with a total of 291 connections. Kinga Csibi: 50 years of the Pioneers’ Post On 31 July 1998, the Children’s Railway Foundation commemorated the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Széchenyi Hill Children’s Railway by a three-day event held by in the stations between Hűvösvölgy and Széchenyi Hill. Since the Pioneers’ Railway carried letters for the Pioneers’ Post, the Postal Museum held a small exhibition in the waiting room of the Csillebérc station. The MÁV Széchenyi Hill Pioneers’ Railway was set up as a joint operation of the Ministry of Transport and Postal Affairs and the Hungarian Pioneers’ Association. It was built in three stages between 1948 and 1950. 12 km long, the 760 mm gauge railway passes through the most beautiful parts of the Buda hills at a speed of 20 km/h, carrying passengers from Széchenyi hill to the Hűvösvölgy terminus with a total journey time of 55 minutes. The route takes it past the finest walking areas in the hills, and many sports 245
