Ing. Gustav Victor Finger was a Czech aviation pioneer, designer and founder of the aviation department of the then Technical Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia (today’s National Technical Museum in Prague). He was also apparently the first Czech who toyed with the idea of using the principle of reactive propulsion in practice. He was born … Read more
The Czech comedy Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet, filmed in 1977, which is a successful parody of films about intrepid detectives and their omnipotent adversaries, probably does not need a long description. In the film, the world-famous American investigator Nick Carter is asked in a letter by the Prague police chief to investigate the … Read more
The history of sending messages by post dates back to ancient times, when the Egyptian, Roman, Persian, Chinese or Indian civilizations could already boast of its very good network. However, receiving and sending was reserved mainly for the monarch and only in exceptional cases was it also served to the public. Due to the great … Read more