Ábrahám Ganz
Ábrahám Ganz | |
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Portrait of Ganz | |
| Born | Abraham Ganz 6 November 1814 |
| Died | 15 December 1867 |
| Nationality | Swiss Hungarian |
| Spouse | Jozefa Heiss |
| Children | Jozefina Anna Pospech |
| Parent(s) | Johann Ulrich Ganz Katharina Remi |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | mechanical engineer entrepreneur iron manufacturer father of Ganz Works |
| Institutions | Escher Wyss AG Josef Rollmill Company (József Hengermalom Társulat) Ganz Works |
| Projects | mold made of cast iron (23.04.1855) improving the hardness of the surface of cast iron for steel making (27.11.1856) hard cast wheels for railroad cars (13.06.1857) improved heart pieces of railway crossings (02.12.1861) distillation unit (16.01.1865) reversing the intersection of railways (20.05.1865) |
Ábrahám Ganz (born as Abraham Ganz; 6 November 1814 – 15 December 1867) was a Swiss-born iron manufacturer, machine and technical engineer, entrepreneur, father of Ganz Works. He was the founder and the manager of the company that he made the flagship of the Hungarian economy in the 19th century. Despite his early death in 1867 the company remained one of the strongest manufacturing enterprise in Austria-Hungary. Many famous engineers worked at Ganz Works inter alia Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri, András Mechwart, Kálmán Kandó, Donát Bánki, János Csonka and Theodore von Kármán and several world-famous inventions were done there, like the first railway electric traction, or the invention of the roller mill, the carburetor, the transformer and the Bánki-Csonka engine.