Joseph Florence
| Joseph Florence | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Part of Schenck Process Austria GmbH |
| founding | 1768 |
| Seat | Braunau am Inn , Vienna |
| Branch | Machine and Steel construction industry |
The company Josef Florence was an important Viennese scales - and weights - factory and kuk purveyor .
history
The Florenz factory was the first and oldest in Austria-Hungary and was based in Vienna. Anton Kühne had manufactured scales and weights as early as 1768 and thus became the founder of the flourishing company. A journeyman named Florence was his successor and his descendants continued to develop their products into the 20th century. Presumably in the late 18th century the company became the imperial purveyor to the court . The Napoleonic Wars brought the company into economic distress, from which it was able to recover.
The scales of Florence were already mentioned in Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler's physical dictionary from 1841. With its own numerous inventions and innovations and the acquisition and use of new technical production methods, the factory increased its efficiency and expanded its sales area beyond the borders of the monarchy. In 1881 the sliding weight scale with recorder was introduced, in 1902 the belt scale was developed. Around 1900 almost all pharmacies in the monarchy, such as the Imperial and Royal Court Pharmacy , were equipped with Florence scales. In the large public banks and credit institutions, in all private banking and exchange houses, they were viewed and used as very precise. Special features of the house were the smallest hand scales , gold, silver, pharmacist, taring and analysis scales as well as all types of balance, bowl, decimal and centimal scales , including centimal weighbridges with a scale, moving weight and recorder.
Around 1900 the factory building was in Vienna's 2nd district at Untere Augartenstrasse 21, and around 1914 at Floridusgasse 62 in the 21st district. The main defeat was at Rothenturmstrasse 26, corner of Adlergasse. In 1944 the main business was relocated from Vienna to Braunau am Inn . The speed-controlled weighfeeder was developed in 1950, and the fully automatic illuminated image scale in 1956 .
In 1962 the hot sintering sieve was developed for the metallurgical industry, in 1968 the calibratable ring torsion load cell . During this time the cooperation with Carl Schenck AG began . In 1972, Florence was finally integrated into Carl Schenck AG.
Prizes and awards
The owner Josef Florenz has been honored several times for his products. Josef Florenz was purveyor to the imperial court, supplier to the imperial and royal central mint and other state and public institutions.
- The award of the golden cross of merit by the emperor was the first and highest recognition for the company.
- By 1898 the company had already received 66 gold and silver awards of particular value. The world and industrial exhibitions of London 1862 , Vienna 1866, Paris 1867 , world exhibition 1873 in Vienna, Centennial Exhibition 1876 in Philadelphia, Paris 1878 , Melbourne 1880 , Adelaide etc. were markets for product distribution and expansion of the sales area.
- The Florence products were also awarded the medal for arts and crafts by the King of Sweden and the silver honorary award from the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph Florence . In: Presented by the industrialists of Austria under the high protectorate of His K. and K. Highness of the Most Serene Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Hrsg.): Die Groß-Industrie Oesterreichs . Festival ceremony for the glorious fiftieth anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Josef I. Volume 3 . Leopold Weiss, Vienna 1898, VI. Instruments, scales and weights, p. 287-288 .
- ^ Physical dictionary, p. 14. Leipzig, by EB Schwickert 1841 W-Wac. with engraved plates I. to IX.
- ↑ Our common company history. (No longer available online.) Schenck Process Austria GmbH, November 8, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 8, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Web presence of Schenck Process Austria GmbH (formerly J. Florenz)
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 33.4 " N , 13 ° 3 ′ 13.4" E