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Tesla was a large state-owned electrotechnical conglomerate in the former
Czechoslovakia.
The company was established in 1921 as Elektra, but
was renamed Tesla on 7 March 1946 [1]. Tesla was initially named after
inventor Nikola Tesla, but the name was later said to be the abbreviation of
Technika Slaboproudá (low-current technics).
During the Cold War,
the company had a state-sponsored monopoly on the production
of electronics, as a result of which it manufactured most of the
industrial, military and domestic electronics appliances that were available
in the country.
Apart from complete appliances, Tesla also had sophisticated facilities
for the production of electronic components, such as radio valves (tubes),
semiconductors (transistors, diodes, ICs, etc.) and passive components
like resistors and capacitors. These components were used in Tesla's own
products, but were also exported to other
Warsaw Pact countries and to the
USSR.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent fall of
communism in the country, Tesla had great difficulty competing effectively
with other companies, resulting in dramatic downsizing and privatization
of its stores and production facilities. Although most of the old company
no longer exists today, some of its subsidaries have survived. For example:
former Tesla subsidary JJ Electronics is well-known for its production
of radio valves (vacuum tubes).
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