Made in Czech Republic

The Charles University in Prague, founded in 1348, is the oldest University in Eastern Europe. The foundation of Charles University by King Charles IV was a fundamental impetus for the development of scientific thinking (although in the beginning it was not, of course, fully separated from philosophical and theological thinking). in 1348. It was the first university in Central Europe.

Václav Divíšek Czech physicist, inventor and Roman Catholic priest
Václav Prokop Diviš , Latin Procopius Divisch , German Prokop Diwisch or Divisch , real name Václav Divíšek ( March 26, 1698 Helvíkovice u Žamberka [1] – December 21, 1765 Přímětice u Znojma ), was a Czech Catholic priest , theologian , member of the Premonstratensian order, naturalist , healer , musician and inventor . He is best known as the inventor of the lightning rod (1750 – 1754). He built his “meteorological machine”, which functioned as a lightning conductor, earlier (1754) than the world-renowned inventor of the lightning conductor Benjamin Franklin (theoretical concept 1753 , built 1760 ). However, Diviš’s concept was different from Franklin’s, his lightning rod was mainly grounded, and therefore it worked better.

Joseph Stepling a Czech Jesuist priest, physicist, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist, was the first to observe that water can be even  in a liquid state at a temperature  below 0° C , so-called supercooled-water.

Ferdinand Porsche was born in Vratislavice nad Nisou, Czech Republic (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) but he established himself mainly in Germany and, as a collaborator with the Nazis, he could not even return to Czech Republic after the war. Ferdinand Porsche was a car designer , best known for the construction of the popular “people’s car” ( Volkswagen ) later known as the VW Beetle . He is also the designer of several types of German armored vehicles.

Prague was the third place in the world where a motor vehicle transported the human passengers. The mechanic of the Royal Czech Technical Trade School, JOSEF BOZEK, built a steam-engine-powered four-wheel vehicle, which he exhibited in 1815 and 1817.

The Czech-born inventor Josef Ressel, in 1826 applied for a patent for a NEVER-ENDING SCREW which can be used to drive ships both on sea and rivers.

Emil Knight of Škoda was a Czech technician, industrialist and large entrepreneur. He was the founder of the Škoda engineering factory in Pilsen (CZ), which was one of the largest European industrial conglomerates of the twentieth century, from which today’s Škoda Transportation and Škoda Auto subsequently emerged .

The first sugar cubes were made in Czech Republic in 1841.

A Czech vehicle manufacturer TATRA is the second oldest company in the world  producing cars with an unbroken history. Because of the way the Soviet Bloc-s planned economic system worked, carmakers were assigned roles by central government,. TATRA was assigned to build trucks, and SKODA passenger cars. While TATRA was an extremely competent truck maker, there were still plenty of engineers who wanted to continue development of their very radical and advanced rear-engine car designs.  So they did! In secret, they began to evolve the now quite dated 1930s TATRA T87 design, into a more modern, full-width body shape, and developed further the T87’s air-cooled V8 engine, using it in military trucks so they could prove the engine without reveling their secret project.

One of the first mass producers of shoes in Europe, was founded by family Bata on 24 August 1894 in the Moravian town of ZLIN. In 1922 Tomas Bata has invented a psychological trick of BATA PRICES that end with -9 or -99.

The Czech automobile manufacturer founded in 1895 as Laurin & Klement was acquired by Industrial conglomerate SKODA WORKS in 1925.

The Czech physician and scientist Jan Evangelista Purkyne made a massive advance in criminology with his discovery that all human fingerprints are unique and could therefore be used as a form of identification.

KOH-I-NOOR SNAP has been holding your jeans since 1902.

In the period between the Wars, about 100 automobile manufacturers were active in the Czech lands, but only eight of them were able to produce more than a 1000 vehicles – NW TATRA, SKODA, PRAGA, AERO, JAWA, WALTER, WIKOV and Z. VEHICLES.

The word “ROBOT” is Czech and it was first used in 1920 in a theatre play by Karel Capek.

POLAROGRAPHY the analysis by measurement of current-voltage relationships in electrolysis between mercury electrodes. This revolutionary technique devised by Czech chemist Jaroslav Heyrovsky in 1922, now has countless useful applications in chemical analysis.

The Czech citizens Frantisek Burian and Arnold Jirasek founded the first plastic surgery in 1927.

Jan Tomas Forman, film director, actor, screenwriter and professor, was born 18 February 1932 in the city of Caslav – Czech Republic

Probably everybody associates the name of BATA with shoes. However, in Czechoslovakia between the wars, this was far from the only activity of the BATA CORPORATION, which also commenced aeroplane production in 1934.

Introduced in 1946 by Czech based company KOH-I-NOOR, the mechanical pencil VERSTAIL has been under continuous production since that time unchanged.

Famous SEMTEX PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE was invented in late 1950s by Czech chemists Stanislav Brebera and Radim Fukatko. Prior to 2000 it was extremely difficult to detect.

A Czech, the chemist Otto Wichterle, invented the soft contact lenses in 1959, working mainly in field of macromolecular organic chemistry, among whose founders he was one. It is best known for its discoveries and inventions, which have led to a major improvement and worldwide expansion of soft contact lenses. These results were based on his original scientific work in the field of hydrogels. Otto Wichterle is also famous for the discovery of an artificial polyamide fibre – NYLON.

The AERO L-39 ALBATROS SUBSONIC JET training and light attack aeroplane, manufactured by AERO N.P. Czechoslovakia, is the most used training jet plane in the world.

Between 1978 and 1996, Czechoslovakia sent five MAGION satellites into outer space.

NANOFIBRES, defined as fibres with diameters less than 100 nanometers are the Czech Patent.

In 1460, the important mathematician Johannes Widmann was born in Cheb (Czech Republic), who introduced the plus and minus signs, but worked for most of his life in Leipzig.

Alois Senefelder

Aloys Johann Nepomuk Franz Senefelder, Czech Alois Jan Nepomuk František Senefelder (born November 6, 1771 in Prague) inventor of lithography, or lithography, who 350 years after the invention of book printing became another printing technique.

Vladimír Remek – Czech cosmonaut
Is the first man in space who was not a citizen of the USA or the USSR.

František Křižík – Czech engineer, designer, entrepreneur and inventor

František Křižík ( July 8, 1847 Plánice [1] – January 22, 1941 Stádlec u Tábora) was a Czech technician , industrialist and inventor . His most famous invention was an arc lamp with self-regulation. He invented the light fountain , improved electric trams and many other devices. He also built an electric car.

Franz Reichelt – parachutist and inventor

Franz Karl Reichelt or François Reichelt (October 16, 1878 Štětí (Czech Republic)) was a pioneer of parachuting and of skydiving, died while testing a life-saving life suit by jumping from the Eiffel Tower.

The cartographer Martin Behaim

the creator of the oldest surviving globe in the world, was born in Český Krumlov, (Czech Repubublic) in 1459.

Ivana Trump (full Name: Ivana Marie Zelníčková) was born in Zlín, Czech Republic, February 20, 1949, in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia (now Zlín, Czech Republic)
She was a prominent figure as the first wife of the well-known Donald John Trump, an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.