1. Visit of Taiwanese students 2010

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

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

4. Traditional businesses in the Czech Republic

5. …..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!