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Tesla was also the name of a Czechoslovak elektronics company, known among other thing for their electron microscopes. Even though this Tesla is long gone, it h
by m4rtink 6y ago
Tesla was also the name of a Czechoslovak elektronics company, known among other thing for their electron microscopes. Even though this Tesla is long gone, it has a lasting legacy here in Brno due to many electron microscope manufacturers (Delong, FEI, Thermo Fisher, etc.) being present and often libking their origin or many employees to the old Tesla company.
- pjmlp 6y agoAnd a museum in Belgrad.
- saiya-jin 6y agoHa, my cousin works in one of those electron microscope companies. Thought it was some one-off company saving some costs maybe due to good graduates coming out of Brno technical university, good to know there is more to it!
- m4rtink 6y agoOne of the old Tesla company buildings is now the Brno Museum of Technology and the have (among many other) an exposition about the history of electron microcopy in Brno. One of the mashines that is part of the exposition (a huge experimental electron beam litography machine) is pretty much bolted in place in the same spot the old Tesla company built it all those years ago. There are even some "legends" about how they built it so well, that it is still holding vacuum inside today. Another legend says that they once could not get a new model of electron microscope working before showing it on an international exposition. The image was always blurry. They ran out of time, so they just took it to the exposition to fix it there. But it worked flawlessly there! Turns out this was due to the tram troley lines running next to the company building interferring with the electron optics. :)