Abstract:
This paper presents the steps taken to ensure the ilummination of the city of Cluj: with
oil in 1827, based on gas in 1890 and finally the electrification project that began after 1904.
There are rendered the steps taken in the development of electrical engineering in
Transylvania, both by providing technical characteristics of the hydroelectric groups and
generators used at different times, and by the descriptions of the solutions used in electricity
generation and transmission. As well a significant contribution is played by the provided
statistics on the growth rate of installed capacity requirements and also by the evolution of the
demographic factor in Cluj area.
It is highlighted the special contribution of Professor VASILESCU - CARPEN, rector of
the Polytechnica University of Bucharest, in the development of the energetics in Cluj, as well
as that of the local personalities who were part of the Joint Board of Administration, which
provided management and distribution of electricity in Cluj.
Living in the spirit of Central Europe many of its personalities brought significant contributions
to the development of electrification in the area.
The establishment of the Faculty of Electrotechnics in Cluj-Napoca is related to the
name of Professor Liviu MANDUC, the paper presenting the stages of his career, and of that of
the school of Cluj. Another personality, on which the authors insist upon is that of Professor
Nicolae PATACHI, which is today at the venerable age of 92 years.