Hungarian Review, 1967 (13. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1967-01-01 / 1. szám

TUNGSRAM: THE STORY OF BULBS, FROM THE CARBON-FILAMENT TO THE XENON Seventy years ago, the predecessor of Tungsram was founded in Új­pest which was quite a few kilo­metres north of the Budapest of those days. When the first carbon-filament bulb was turned out by those early workshops, its makers did not dream more than that perhaps one day their homes would be illumi­nated by the splendid, bright light. But a few years later, two ambi­tious engineers thought these plans were too modest. They also felt that the carbon-filament incandes­cent bulbs were out of date. Sándor Juszt and Ferenc Hanna­­mann, engineers, invented, and de­veloped for mass production the tungsten filament bulb between 1903 and 1905. Advertisements to popularize the new invention were published in Budapest, Vienna and other cities of Europe. By this time A semi-automatic bulb manufacturing unit. It produces 2,000 bulbs an hour

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