Z Blanska do tropické Afriky:
From Blansko to Tropical Africa:

Speaking to Antonin Petlach about the Expert Mission of Czechoslovak ‘Hydropojekt’ in Ghana in 1961

Summary/Abstract: The domain of Antonin Petlach, an engineer born in Blansko, Moravia in 1929, a graduate of the Technical University in Brno and Bratislava, were turbines for hydropower stations. On his drawing board he created the power stations in Miksova, Znojmo, Lipno, Dlouhe strane and many others. His original design of the station in Markersbach, Sachsen even earned him a West German state award in 1981, which he was not allowed to accept by the Czechoslovak government for political reasons. As an expert in hydropower stations, he was a member of a half-year expert mission by Hydroprojekt, a Czechoslovak state enterprise, in Ghana in 1961. The interview with him follows up on the previous study on this enterprise and enriches it with a view of one of the experts delegated to the field as part of cooperation agreements between the Czechoslovak and Ghanaian governments.

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