First Czechoslovak radiotelephone networks: AMR

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Post by wotaen » Wed, Jul 19, 2017, 10:50 AM UTC

First Czechoslovak radiotelephone networks: AMR
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Post by sengork » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 12:39 AM UTC

As a fun fact a lot of the people who live there believe(d) that Nikola Tesla was a Czech/Slovak due to the (at the time) prevalent domestic 'Tesla' brand name on various electronics (including popular TVs).

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Post by finnn » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 6:04 AM UTC

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Post by wereHamster » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 6:54 AM UTC

sengork wrote: post #2

As a fun fact a lot of the people who live there believe(d) that Nikola Tesla was a Czech/Slovak due to the (at the time) prevalent domestic 'Tesla' brand name on various electronics (including popular TVs).

Clearly he was american because of Tesla the automotive company.

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Post by roesel » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 7:27 AM UTC

An interesting topic, although the article could use some proof-reading. Or perhaps it was Google-translated from Czech?

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Post by Scea91 » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 9:12 AM UTC

sengork wrote: post #2

As a fun fact a lot of the people who live there believe(d) that Nikola Tesla was a Czech/Slovak due to the (at the time) prevalent domestic 'Tesla' brand name on various electronics (including popular TVs).

I haven't met a single one who thought that, or even heard about it, so it is probably not that widespread.

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Post by gpvos » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 10:09 AM UTC

roesel wrote: post #5

An interesting topic, although the article could use some proof-reading. Or perhaps it was Google-translated from Czech?

Also, several technical terms and abbreviations are introduced without any explanation. Still an interesting read.

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Post by gpvos » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 10:10 AM UTC

finnn wrote: post #3

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Post by zoul » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 10:48 AM UTC

roesel wrote: post #5

An interesting topic, although the article could use some proof-reading. Or perhaps it was Google-translated from Czech?

Patrick is Czech, but has a lot on his plate, so any spelling errors are most probably due to haste.

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Post by dfox » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 10:50 AM UTC

Scea91 wrote: post #6

sengork wrote: post #2

As a fun fact a lot of the people who live there believe(d) that Nikola Tesla was a Czech/Slovak due to the (at the time) prevalent domestic 'Tesla' brand name on various electronics (including popular TVs).

I haven't met a single one who thought that, or even heard about it, so it is probably not that widespread.

Also I've never met anyone who thpught that. On the other hand there is the folk etymology of TeSla = "technicky slabsi" = "technologically inferior", which has some grain of truth as for political reasons the Tesla conglomerate tried to disassociate itself from Nikola Tesla by explaining the name as abbreviation of either "technika slaboprouda" (phrase that essentially means "electronics", litetally "low voltage technology") or "telefon slaboproud" (~ phone and electronics).