Ing. Gustav Victor Finger was a Czech aviation pioneer, designer and founder of the aviation department of the then Technical Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia (today’s National Technical Museum in Prague). He was also apparently the first Czech who toyed with the idea of using the principle of reactive propulsion in practice. He was born … Read more
When talking about the war workers who were the backbone of America’s war industry, most of us think only of the We Can Do It! poster which I wrote about in the previous post. But what did these women (appearing in many war films) actually look like and what should we imagine under this term today. … Read more
Although printed posters began to appear around 1480, in today’s post we will not focus so much on the history of these paper banners as the creation of one of them. As you probably already know, we will be talking about the legendary war poster of a woman in a blue overalls and a red scarf … Read more
The history of sending messages by post dates back to ancient times, when the Egyptian, Roman, Persian, Chinese or Indian civilizations could already boast of its very good network. However, receiving and sending was reserved mainly for the monarch and only in exceptional cases was it also served to the public. Due to the great … Read more