A journey into the Limelight: the Emancipation of the Czech Technical Intelligentsia at the turn of the 20th Century

Abstract

At the turn of the 20th century, the technical intelligentsia underwent a massification process. The activities undertaken by companies, municipalities and the state in social, commercial, transport and technical areas, acquired grester significance than political decision-making itself.

This relates especially to activities concernig public administration, business, education and raising public awereness.

Keywords

• Prague
• technical intelligentsia
• infrastructure