Export of machinery and transport vehicles (SITC 7) total Period
Stat. value USD (thous.)
2009
60 635 649
2010
72 606 952
2011
89 163 034
2012
85 099 298
2013
87 467 453
2014
96 291 953
2015
87 542 996
2016
91 585 417
2017
103 865 574
2018
117 709 110
Source: Czech Statistical Office
the test in the digital world. This means in particular the need to build the data and communication infrastructure, restructure the education system, introduce new labour market instruments, adapt the social environment and provide fiscal aid to firms to enable them to cope with the necessity for investment in new technologies and know-how. For example, what will a lathe operator´s work be like in 15 years? Will he be working manually in the workshop, dressed in protective clothing? Or will he control the machine remotely by computer, which will be able to give accurate instructions and optimise the consumption of materials and energy, thus raising the effectiveness of production? The Industry 4.0 philosophy is opening up unforeseen possibilities and those who will be able to use them will be prepared to stand the test in the new era. www.businessinfo.cz, www.mpo.cz. Czech Statistical Office
The end of the 19th century was marked by the appearance of new technologies – the combustion engine and electrical systems. That period in time is sometime referred to as the Second Industrial, or Scientific-Technical Revolution. The most important Czech inventors of that time were Josef Ressl, inventor of the propeller, the Veverka cousins, who invented the buzz plough, i.e. an improved plough, which not only dug up the soil, but also turned it up, Viktor Kaplan, inventor of the water turbine, František Křižík, nicknamed the “Czech Edison”, inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur, who invented, among many other things, the electric arc lamp, improved the railway safety system, built the first Czech electric power plants and, in 1881, put into operation the first electric tramway line in Prague. In 1903, he built the first electric railway track on the Bechyně-Tábor line, which was the first electrified railway line in the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire. František Křižík Author: Ignác Šechtl; Šechtl and Voseček archives
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