Jan Bašta

Jan Bašta

Jan Bašta (born June 5, 1860 in Poděbrady , † October 12, 1936 in Prague ) was a Czech engineer and researcher.

Life

After successfully completing secondary school in Jičín and Kutná Hora , Bašta studied civil engineering at the ČVUT in Prague from 1878 to 1884. His further working life was concerned with the construction of railways at the railroad management in Pilsen and Prague. He was responsible for the renewal and expansion of the badly damaged railway connections in the Pilsen, Prague and Linz area and planned the construction of the main train station in Pilsen. In 1902 he received his doctorate in technical sciences from the Czech Technical University in Prague . As the first general director of the newly founded Czechoslovak state railway Československé státní dráhy , to which he was appointed in 1918, he planned new railway connections in Czechoslovakia . After the establishment of the Ministry of Railways he worked until his retirement in 1923 as a director of the traffic office.

Awards

1932 honorary doctorate in natural sciences for his research

Works

In his book O jedinosti síly a hmoty v jednotném fysikálním názoru světovém (1933) he deals with the balance of forces, the cause of which he found in the “primordial atoms”. He published other books in the Czech language in the field of physics and engineering.