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In 1829, the brothers Tomas and Frantisek Grebner founded the first sugar factory in the western part of the Austrian Empire in the village of Kostelní Vidří near the town of Dačice (South Bohemia). Sugar beet was grown on three hectares of land in the neighborhood, but the soil turned out to be unsuitable, and in 1833 production was transferred to Dačice, where sugar cane was delivered from Trieste in Italy (beets were switched to much later, in 1844). Until 1839, the manufactory developed, but then financial problems began, and the owners invited a crisis manager from Vienna.

A native of Switzerland, Jakob Christoph Rad actively took up the cause. He expanded production, installed new equipment (in particular, the first steam engine in the city), brought the number of workers to 30, and ensured that the factory's products were bought not only in Moravia and Bohemia, but also in Austria.

Rad also opened in many large cities (Vienna, Prague, Lvov, Brno, Pest) company stores where one could buy sugar produced in Dačice. And not only sugar - in 1841, on the advice of his wife, Jacob Rad launched a workshop for the preparation of candied fruits, sweets and chocolate, which were supplied to confectionery shops in many cities of the Austrian Empire.

In the process of sugar production, saturated syrup was poured into cone-shaped containers, where it crystallized. The end product that customers bought in the store at that time was a sugar head - a fairly large cone-shaped piece of sugar with a base diameter of up to 35 cm and a height of 80-90 cm. Housewives had to break off pieces from sugar heads using special sharp tongs, this required physical strength and a certain skill.

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Sugar Loaf

On one of the spring days of 1841, the manager's wife Juliana Rad, while extracting lumps of sugar for tea drinking, seriously cut herself. When her husband returned home, she showed him her bandaged finger and exclaimed in anger: "That's what the damn sugar loafs have done! Because next time I can cut off my finger! Can't you do something smaller ?!" However, Juliana quickly cooled down and forgot about this incident.

The finger had long since healed when, three months later, in August, Jakob Rad came home with a box tied with a ribbon in his hands. "This is what you so wanted to receive," he said to his wife, handing her a gift. Juliana opened the box and saw 350 white and red sugar cubes inside. A couple of years later, on January 23, 1843, Jakob Rad received a patent for his process of making sugar cubes by pressing powder, and in the fall of that year, the Dačice factory began producing this product under the name "Tea Sugar".

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The last step towards the global triumph of sweet cubes was taken in the 1870s, when the German inventor, engineer and industrialist Eigen Langen developed an effective mass production technology.

Author: S.Apresov

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