VOLTA BLOG | The wide variety of purposes of Volta quarter´s industrial buildings during the quarter’s 100-year history
In a few years, the historic Volta quarter will be completed in the heart of Kalamaja, which is undergoing a thorough renovation. During the quarter’s more than 100-year history, former industrial buildings have been used for a wide variety of purposes, from ship parts to sweets. Let us take a look at what has been made at the Volta factory over the course of a century.
Electric motors and light
The Volta quarter achieved the ability to produce electricity in 1913, and thanks to this, the city of Tallinn got its first street lighting in the same year, but the most impressive product of the factory was undoubtedly Volta’s famous electric motor. In the middle of the last century, nearly ten percent of the electric motors of the Eastern market came from the Volta factory, and several million motors were produced within one century. During the factory’s heyday, almost 3,000 people worked in Volta, who managed to produce a total of 1,200 electric motors per day.
In March 1990, the factory completed 10 million motors, and today you can see the 10,000,000th electric motor covered in gold in the lobby of Tööstuse 47B Volta Lofts.
