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The aim of this urban multicache is to lead you along an area
called Infopark. Formerly intended to be the site of 1996 World
Exhibition but the government canceled the plan due to financial
reasons. For today, it is the Hungarian 'Silicon Valley' at least
as far as the concentration of Educational and Research Centers is
concerned. Besides headquarters of huge companies of electronic
industry, the two biggest universities of Budapest are in this
area. The walk is guided by visiting three location devoted to
famous Hungarian scientists whose activity in telecommunications
and computer technique is acknowledged not only inside Hungary and
who -even in a very indirect way- made possible for us to play this
GPS-based game. Unfortunately, I can not give their names here,
since cachers playing the game on geocaching.hu have to use them as
PW for a 'found' login.
Approaching the cache
Getting off the tram No. 4 or 6 on the Buda side of Petofi bridge,
the GPS will already indicate the vicinity of the first point.
Before going to that, please enter at N 47° 28,487' E 19° 3,668 the
northern building of Eotvos Lorand University where you will find a
globe scaled by 1:6.000.000. The tilt of the globe and its
revolution is exactly equal to real values, just the terrain
heights are slightly exaggerated otherwise even the Mount Everest
would have been as small as 1.5 mm.
The first point
Going further inside the building, you will see a peculiar, high
instrument with detailed explanation given in English, too. It was
developed and operated by a scientist and teacher, a man with a
very broad knowledge whose son is famous, too. Since being my
teacher and later my colleague, I could tell about him a lot but I
can't, for reasons explained above.
The second point
This point is inside the 'I' building where your GPS will surely
loose signal but there are just a few meters inside for two points
to see. Entering through the rotary door, you you will firstly see
the hologram of Denes Gabor, the inventor of holography. A bit more
forward is a bronze bust of the constructor of the first Hungarian
computer.
The third point
Coming out of the 'I' building, you can see roof decorated by 84
glass cones. The building was originally built for sporting
purposes but it has been never completed. Nowadays it is intended
to reconstructed and used as a conference hall. Close to this
building you will find a small pond and a nice statue of another,
world-famous Hungarian man.
The fourth point
You can pick up the microcache between points 1 and 2 already.
It's a relatively quiet place next to which construction of a new
university building will start soon. I hope that this shall not
cause any problem, otherwise I will take care about finding a new
location.
Another places of interest
It is worth to visit the southern building of Eotvos Lorand
University (N 47° 28,3308' E 19° 3,7023') where one can find
excavational and geological collections and daring constructional
solutions. On the way back to the tram, at N 47° 28,5053' E 19°
3,5597' you go along the modern 'Church of Hungarian Saints' where
you can see some bells of different size which time to time play
chimes. BTW this place has its own microcache, see
GC220CG
Bonus point
If your time allows (and I don't have a lecture), don't hesitate
to visit me in my office (I.E.451.) at N 47° 28,358' E 19° 3,570'
from where you can have a good view to the area, and eventually
visit the anechoic chamber of our acoustic laboratory.