Horse-drawn railway

At the beginning of the development of technology at the beginning of the 19th century, Czech technical sophistication was represented by a unique work of international importance - the first and longest horse-drawn railway on the European continent, leading from České Budějovice to Linz in Austria.
In 1807, the director of the first polytechnic institute in Prague, FJ Gerstner, was commissioned to investigate the possibility of connecting the Vltava with the Danube by means of a canal. The,…