Ábrahám Ganz
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Ábrahám Ganz
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| Born |
Abraham Ganz 6 November 1814 Unter-Embrach, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland |
| Died | 15 December 1867 Pest, Austria-Hungary |
| Nationality |
Hungarian Swiss |
| Spouse(s) | 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 serface 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, Unter-Embrach, Switzerland - 15 December 1867, Pest, Austria-Hungary) was a Swiss-born Hungarian 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.
He was born into a Swiss Calvinist family in Unter-Embrach. His father, Johann Ulrich Ganz, was a cantor teacher. His mother, Katharina Remi, died when he was just 10 years old. He was the oldest son out of nine children.
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