The first entirely welded arch bridge in the world. It was built more than a century ago.
A former academic institution, focusing between 1961 and 1974 on educating foreign students, especially from the countries of the so-called Third World. The university was an important place for making international contacts and a uniquely multicultural environment.
Czech Catholic priest, natural scientist and inventor. While trying to prevent a storm, he unwittingly created the first grounded lightning rod.
Literary and theatre critic and theoretician, Marxist aesthetician, member of the Devětsil group and one of the ideologues of Czech Socialist Realism. He was one of the leading representatives of the Czechoslovak left in literary theory.
Czech forester, zoologist, explorer, hunter, photographer, ethnologist and writer, founder and first director of the Safari Park in Dvůr Králové nad Labem.
The longest running Czech monthly magazine promoting science and research, especially natural sciences.
A system of nine water reservoirs built in the 1960s. The strongest protection from floods on the Vltava River.
The tallest bridge on the D1 motorway, built in 1978. It spans the valley of the river Oslava in Velké Meziříčí.
The seventh Czech (Czechoslovak) satellite and the first Czech nanosatellite. In service since 2017, it was designed for measuring oxygen levels in the atmosphere and recording cosmic radiation.
Luxury car by the Walter car maker. Its race versions became the fastest car in interwar Czechoslovakia.
World-famous Czech scientist, inventor of soft contact lenses and silon. Founder of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Automatic weapon produced between 1926 and 1953 by Zbrojovka Brno and exported around the world. Its modified version known as BREN became one of the legendary weapons of the Second World War.
Czech-American economist working in several universities in the USA, Denmark, Belgium, China, India, Brazil, Italy and the Czech Republic.
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