Photo: Die Gross-Industrie Oesterreichs, Band 3. Leopold Weiss, Wien 1898/Wikimedia Commons, public domain
130 years ago, the Kolben & Co. factory began its story in Vysočany, which became the industrial heart of Prague and a symbol of Czech electrical engineering.
Emil Kolben was a Czech engineer who worked in the United States alongside Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla in the late 19th century.
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