Visit of Taiwanese students

1. Visit of Taiwanese students 2010

2. Getting to know each other About me Richard Selby This is me!

3. Getting to know each other About me Richard Selby This is me!

4. Traditional businesses in the Czech Republic

5. Traditional businesses in the Czech Republic …..up to 1989

7. 1918 - 1993

8. Austro-Hungarian Empire (1895)

9. An appreciation of dates • Pre 1914 • Austro-Hungarian empire; Czechoslovakia created 1918 • 1918-1939 • 1939-1945 • German occupation • 1945-1989 • Communist regime (Influenced by Russia) • “Prague spring” 1968 • “Velvet revolution” November 1989 • Post 1989

10. Traditional industries • Three groups: • Engineering and “Heavy industry” • Specialised • Consumer items

11. Traditional industries (1) • Engineering and “Heavy industry” • Engineering • Skoda – cars, trucks and large engines • Tesla – electronic items: radios & TVs etc, Lighting, generators • Mining • “Black” coal • “Soft” coal • Clay • Graphite • Silver  Uranium

12. Traditional industries (1) • Engineering and “Heavy industry” • Engineering • Skoda – cars, trucks and large engines • Tesla – electronic items: radios & TVs etc, Lighting, generators • Mining • “Black” coal • “Soft” coal • Clay • Graphite • Silver  Uranium

15. “Open-cast” coal mining at Doly Bilina

16. Traditional industries (1) • Engineering and “Heavy industry” • Engineering • Skoda – cars, trucks and large engines • Tesla – electronic items: radios & TVs etc, Lighting, generators • Mining • “Black” coal • “Soft” coal • Clay • Graphite • Silver  Uranium

17. Traditional industries (2) • Specialised • Chemical • Medical • Contact lenses • Films • Musical instruments • Agribusiness • Livestock  milk/cheese/meat • Timber • Fruit/vegetables etc, etc, etc………

18. Prof. Otto Wichterle Inventor of the “soft” contact lens

19. On this home-built apparatus, Prof. Wichterle produced his first “soft” contact lens in his kitchen in 1961

20. Traditional industries (3) • Consumer items • Glassware • Lead crystal and cut-glass • Porcelain • Shoes • The “Bata” company

24. In more detail…. • Skoda • Tesla • Bata Shoe advertising

25. Traditional industries (3) • Consumer items • Glassware • Lead crystal and cut-glass • Porcelain • Shoes • The “Bata” company • Brewing Beer …….also, wines, spirits and other beverages: fruit drinks and mineral water

29. Petrof pianos

31. Thank you See you next Thursday!