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Mechanikai Laboratórium
Mechanikai Laboratórium Híradástechnikai Kísérleti Vállalat
(Mechanical Laboratory of the Telecommunication Engineering Company)
— commonly abbreviated to Mechanikai Laboratórium, or ML —
was a state-owned company in Budapest (Hungary) during the days of
the Cold War
[1].
The company — which initially had 18 employees — was established in 1947
by the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, to provide the country with
high-tech (studio) equipment, which was not available from Western companies
at the time, due to a sales embargo to Eastern Block countries.
ML also produced 'special equipment' for the Hungarian Ministry of Defense
and for the Ministry of the Interior, such as special (spy) radio sets
and equipment for locating rogue transmissions.
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent change of the
Hungarian regime, the company was dissloved, as it could not
compete with Western companies. Furthermore, the company could not cope with
the emerging digital techniques in the audio and video branch.
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