Jan Bašta

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

Life

After the successful completion of secondary school in Jičín and Kutná Hora Basta studied from 1878 to 1884 civil engineering at the CTU in Prague. His later work life, he worked on the railway at the railway headquarters in Pilsen and Prague. He was responsible for the renewal and expansion of the heavily damaged rail lines in space Pilsen, Prague and Linz and projected the construction of the main railway station in Pilsen. In 1902 he became a Doctor of Technical Sciences of the Czech Technical University in Prague. As Director General of the Czech railway, to which he was appointed in 1918, he designed new rail services in the Czech Republic. After the establishment of the Ministry of Railways, he worked until his retirement in 1923 as Head of the Transport Office.

Awards

1932 Honorary Doctorate of Science for his research

Works

In his book O jedinosti SILY a hmoty v jednotném fysikálním názoru světovém (1933 ) he deals with power relations, whose cause he did find in the " monads ". In Czech language, he published further books in the field of physics and engineering.