Light That Smells Like Cabbage — Gas Lighting in Hungary

Light That Smells Like Cabbage — Gas Lighting in Hungary

The following is an adapted version of an article written by Mátyás Bíró, originally published in Hungarian in Magyar Krónika. István Széchenyi, one of the greatest statesmen in our nation’s history, played a major role in the spread of gas lighting in Hungary. The first gas lamp in Pest was lit in 1816 on the side of the Hungarian National Museum. Street lighting, which we now take for granted, first appeared in Hungary in Buda in 1777, while r…