Rezso Vanko

* Bánya Beszterce, 31 May 1882 – † Budapest, 22 January 1959 / ironworks engineer. ; ; He obtained a degree in ironworks engineering from the Mining and Forestry College in Selmecbánya in 1908, and then studied special mechanical engineering at the Technical College in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He acquired practical knowledge of mining machine design at the Kachelmann Machine Factory in Vihnye. After World War I, he was a plant manager in Nagybátony, and from 1921 he was the technical director of the Mining Machines and Mechanical Transport Equipment factory in Újpest. He designed mining machines that were considered modern even in world terms. He is credited with the first Hungarian alternating current mine transport machine. He developed the mechanical equipment for endless rope slag transport. From 1952 until his death, he was the head of the Department of the Mining Planning Institute. He published numerous articles in the Mining and Metallurgical Journals and other journals.