Made in Czechoslovakia aneb pracoval jsem ve Škodaexportu - Historie Československého vývozu investičních celků – Kalkus Zdeněk (2025)

We often encounter the saying "Golden Czech Hands" without realizing what it actually means. It is not just self-praise, as some might think, but a significant legacy from our ancestors who made our country famous in many ways even in distant corners of the world. One of the most significant contributions of these "Czech" and consequently "Slovak Hands" was the highly developed industry encompassing energy, petrochemicals, food processing, textiles, glassmaking, and especially very high-quality engineering of all kinds. This book is about Czech and Czechoslovak industry and its influence and legacy in the world. Zdeněk Kalkus, a proven author who worked for several decades at ŠKODAEXPORT, is a highly knowledgeable witness to the fact that Czech products—from ordinary screws to entire complex systems of power plants and heating plants of all kinds, production lines, rolling mills, railway sidings, and so on—had an extraordinary reputation and sound in the world. Czechoslovak enterprises and their experts from many professions gained a reputation based on reliability, and Czechoslovak products were renowned not only for their long-lasting durability but also for their ease of operation and...