Antal Bernhard
The dream of connecting Buda and Pest – Creator of the first Hungarian steamboat designed a bridge between the cities
August 3, 2020 at 1:00 PM
Antal Bernhard, the creator of Carolina, the first Hungarian steamboat, also designed a bridge design to connect the cities of Pest and Buda. Before the construction of the Chain Bridge, nearly two dozen proposals were made on how to bridge the river, and among these, Bernhard’s plan was an important idea because it could actually have worked.
The first steamboat sailed from Pest to Buda two hundred years ago
July 13, 2020 at 11:00 AM
A bizarre machine started operating 200 years ago on the Danube between Buda and Pest. A 13-metre-long, small, smoking structure, with a large wheel on each side, splashed water and towed a passenger barge after it. Although the company lived for only a year, it started steam navigation on the Danube.
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