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Apparently contact lenses and sugar cubes/lumps are both Czech(oslovak) inventions. Does anyone have more details? Or does anybody know of any other Czech(oslovak) inventions/discoveries? Apparently contact lenses and sugar cubes/lumps are both Czech(oslovak) inventions. Does anyone have more details? Or does anybody know of any other Czech(oslovak) inventions/discoveries?

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#1 Sugar cubes — cancze 2009-02-11 15:32

The world's first sugar cube was invented in Daƒçice, which is just a bit south of Telƒç.

Apparently, the owner of one of the town's sugar mills devised the sugar cube after his wife hurt her hand using a sugar chopping tool to cut up a large block of sugar. At the time sugar was sold in large loaves and you needed a special chopper at home to cut them up.

The mill owner played around with some scrap strips of brass at the mill until he came up with a neat and tidy grid, not unlike an ice cube tray, and decided to package sugar that way instead. Needless to say it was a hit.

Daƒçice has a small chateau that serves as a museum to the town's historical significance in the sugar industry. It's interesting as a day trip from Telƒç, and you'll come away knowing more about sugar than you ever wanted to.

#2 czech inventors — anyong 2009-02-12 01:04

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wichterle
Otto Wichterle was a Czech chemist and inventor, best known for his invention of modern contact lenses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantisek_Krizik or better http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_K%C5%99i%C5%BE%C3%ADk
Franti≈°ek K≈ôi≈æ√≠k In 1878 he invented a device to protect against collision between trains. His first experiments in Plze≈à resulted in the invention of the electric arc lamp, the so-called Plzen Lamp (1881), for which he successfully defended his patent against Werner Siemens. In 1884 K≈ôi≈æ√≠k set up his own company building tramway lines, power stations and electric equipment
More on http://www.mineralfit.cz/clanek/3418--ceske-objevy-a-vynalezy.html
http://www.czech.cz/cz/ekonomika-podnikani-veda/veda/dumyslne-vynalezy or english version contains much less articles -
http://www.czech.cz/en/economy-business-science/science/ingenious-inventions?i=1

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