DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology)

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Historický vývoj prostředků a aplikačních mechanismů k ochraně rostlin v českých zemích

Z. Koleska

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 1 > 13-34

The paper expands on the history of the scientific methods used to protect plants in the Czech lands. It provides information concerning the development, manufacture, and use of specialized means and application techniques for the protection of agriculture produce, orchards, and forests from diseases and biological enemies from the 18th through the 20th centuries. A historical overview describes the...

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K vědeckým zahraničním stykům Jiřího Buquoye (1781-1851)

L. Novy

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 1 > 1-11

Earl Georg Franz Buquoy (1781-1851) kept great property in Bohemia. His richness allowed him to devote time and attention to his interests - mathematics, natural sciences (mainly mechanics), political economy, and so on. He published his ideas on philosophical and political problems. He actively took part in political life and was effective as an entrepreneur. The breadth of his interests is mirrored...

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Vladislav Přistoupil jako jeden z prvních českých výzkumných chemiků ve Spolku pro chemickou a hutní výrobu

Ivana Lorencová

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 1 > 35-41

The Association for the Chemical and Metallurgical Production in Usti n. L. was founded in the middle of the 19th century by German specialists, and from the end of the century it was one of the most important institutions for creating main structure of industrial chemistry in the Czech lands. V. Pristoupil was only the 5th Czech chemist employed there from 1920s. His work, mainly in the Association,...

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Počátky české elektrochemie

J. Jindra

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 2 > 87-101

Electrochemistry as a part of physical chemistry was not very appraised in the Czech lands between 1882 and 1920. It was connected with the common ignoring of physical chemistry in the country. Nevertheless, several chemists devoted themselves to the discipline, among them J. Baborovsky who built up his own school in Brno later. Very promising O. Sulc unfortunately died young so that he did not succeeded...

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Vznik národného podniku Biogena

R. R. Sencek

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 2 > 73-86

The article deals with the research of a short interval, when the Ministry of Health Care tried realising an idea to establish independent pharmaceutical industry focused at the biological products. The idea of the Ministry to retain own industry was not traditional not only in relation to its own history but also to the deep-rooted character of ministries' of health care competence. Nationalised...

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Výzkum dědičnosti – na cestě za poznáním Mendelova objevu

V. Orel

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 2 > 65-72

Attention is drawn to the unique network of sheep breeders and professors of agriculture and natural sciences leading in Moravia in 1818 to the generalization of knowledge in empiric genetic laws to be solved and in 1837 to the formulation of the useful research question of heredity. The historical investigation also contributed to the explanation of the problem regarding basic knowledge of heredity...

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Československý betatron

I. Janovsky

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 2 > 103-118

The first betatron accelerating electrons through magnetic induction was built by Donald Kerst at the University of Illinois in 1940. Czechoslovakia, as one of a few (about six) countries of the world, managed production of betatron, as early as the 1950s. The research and development activities started in the Accelerator Department of the Research Institute for Vacuum Electrotechnique, which was...

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The Beginnings of the Ether Anaesthesia in Moravia in February 1847

J. Vetesnik

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 2 > 119-123

In Austria, the very first surgery with anaesthesia was undertook in Vienna, on January 27, 1847. In the Czech lands, the first use of anaesthesia was supposed in the historical literature in Prague, on February 7 in the same year. Nevertheless, really the historically first anaesthesia was applied in Brno, already on February 4, 1847, three days earlier. The other surgeries with ether anaesthesia...

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THE 20TH CENTURY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE

J. Folta

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 3

After a quantitative analysis of the whole development of science and its specialized parts as well as technology, which shows that merely one half of scientific and technological results was created since 1850, the article reflects on tasks of historians in preparing an overview of that epoch. The paper follows important new technologies in 19th C. and suggests their connections with the results...

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Intelektuálové zachránění Tureckem před nacismem a jejich kontakty s Československem

A. Reisman

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 3 > 151-174

In 1933, Turkey reformed its higher education using invitees fleeing the Nazis and for whom America was out of reach because of restrictive immigration laws and widespread anti-Semitic hiring bias at its universities. This visionary act on the part of Turkey's government had the collateral benefit of placing in escrow lives, knowledge, and creativity of many who went on to significantly change established...

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Elektrochemické zdroje proudu v Československu do roku 1989. Kapitola z dějin české elektrochemie Část I: Primární články, lithiové články, vodivé polymery a kompozitní elektrody

J. Jindra

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 3 > 175-193

The article deals with the research and production of primary cells, lithium cells, conductive polymers, and composite electrodes in the 2nd half of the 20th century. In many cases research was conducted through the close cooperation of research institutions with industrial laboratories, or even within the framework of international collaboration (Bulgaria, Italy, Sweden).

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(Polo)zapomenutý vynálezce Vladimír Svatý

V. Havlik

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 4 > 229-238

Vladimir Svaty, inventor and constructor, was born on September 19, 1919, in Roztoky u Jilemnice. He died on February 2, 1986, in Liberec. V. Svaty was a world-known inventor in textile engineering. He developed with his collaborators a loom of revolutionary construction using two natural elements, air and water, for weaving. His jet loom opened a new epoch of weaving technology. Air- and hydraulic-operated...

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History of Confiscated Property of the České učení technické (Czech Technical University) in the years 1939–1945

M. Josefovicova

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 4 > 209-227

The history of the immovable and movable property of the Czech Technical University after closing of all Czech universities in November 1939 has been studied primarily from the preserved testimonies of Czech witnesses about its state in May 1945. In the article, the history has been reconstructed on basis of official German documents. The initial assumption that the 'Deutsche Technische Hochschule...

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ON FORTY YEARS OF OUR JOURNAL

P. Drabek

DVT - Dějiny věd a techniky (History of Sciences and Technology) > 2007 > 40 > 4 > 239-254

A short survey of the beginnings of DVT and of its prehistory, characteristics of four tens of its existence as regards issued papers; the surveys is completed in the Nr. 4 by bibliography of papers for years 1993-2007, divided according to their subject into ten parts.

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CZECH LANDS (2)
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1847) (1)
1950S) (1)
40TH ANNIVERSARY OF DVT (1)
ANAESTHESIA (MORAVIA (1)
BABOROVSKY J. (1)
BENES GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE (1)
BETATRON (1)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (1)
BOHEMIA (1)
BOHEMIA (1ST HALF OF THE 19TH C.) (1)
BUQUOY GEORG F. (1)
COMPOSITE ELECTRODES (1)
CONDUCTIVE POLYMERS (1)
CZECH ELECTROCHEMISTRY (1882-1920) (1)
CZECHOSLOVAK CHEMICAL INDUSTRY (1920S-1970S) (1)
CZECHOSLOVAK PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY (1950S) (1)
DEFECTOSCOPY (1)
DVT - DEJINY VED A TECHNIKY (1)
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOURCES OF CURRENT (1)
EXILE (1)
FOREIGN CONTACTS (1)
HAUSER FRANCZ (1)
HISTORY OF GENETICS IN MORAVIA (AFTER 1810) (1)
HISTORY OF PHARMACY (1)
HISTORY OF SCIENCE (1)
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (1)
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (20TH C.) (1)
JET LOOMS (1)
LITHIUM CELLS (1)
MENDEL G. (1)
MORAVIA (1)
NAZI PERSECUTION (1)
NOBLEMAN AND SCIENTIST (1)
PRAGUE (1)
PRIMARY CELLS (1)
PRISTOUPIL VLADISLAV (1)
PROTECTION OF PLANTS (18TH- 20TH C.) (1)
RADIATION THERAPY (1)
SEBOR J. (1)
SHUTDOWN OF UNIVERSITIES (1)
SULC O. (1)
SVATY VLADIMIR - INVENTOR (1)
TASKS FOR HISTORIANS (1)
TEXTILE ENGINEERING CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1)
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