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Stefan Bryła, the man who built the world’s first welded bridge and the first Polish skyscrapers
Bryła, the man who wanted to move a chunk of Poland* after the war ended [the word Bryła means chunk]. (…) ‘You have to think, you have to work’ – this was his…
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Ernest Malinowski: National Hero of Peru who built the highest railway in the world
Indeed, the famous work of the Pole is part of the devoted fight against all kinds of barriers that nature puts between people, both physical and economic. The universe of free movement will…
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Jacek Karpiński: the engineer who built the most modern microcomputer in the 70’s
Wanda Karpińska was expecting a baby, and Adam Karpiński wanted his son to be born at the peak of Mont Blanc. In April 1927, the bad weather wasn’t conducive for the daredevil expedition,…
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Michał Boym: the first sinologist
For both Poles and Chinese people, Boym is an extremely important and colorful figure. His dedication and devotion to the cause of Ming Dynasty is admirable. Boym was not only a missionary, but…
