The article analyses the names of the individual means of transport operated in the Czech Republic. A great deal of attention is devoted to the names of train engines and train services. The following parts of the paper are devoted to the names of ships and boats, motorcycles and motor cars, and aircrafts.
Means of transport are an inseparable part of the material culture of a modern town. The inhabitants of Tallinn in the 18th c. used a wide range of vehicles. They were also well-supplied with appropriate accessories (saddles, horse collars, Krummholz frames). The number of vehicles used depended on the owner’s social position. In the period under consideration among the most popular means of transport were two- or four-wheeled vehicles holding two people, labelled with the French term chaise. In the late 18th c. the inhabitants of Tallinn used numerous peasant sleighs (usually for one person). They also had various vehicles used to transport goods. The article is based on about 500 probate inventories from the 18th c.
This article aims to draw attention to the hitherto unexplored and scarcely noticed problem of the effects of the consumption of increasing amounts of energy to human health and ecosystems exposed to emissions processed in the phase of energy consumption. Ever-increasing amounts of energy are consumed in relatively small areas of highways. Reference is made to the results of pioneering research on the impact of emitted sound energy by transport routes and by industrial noise on human health (Borzyszkowski 2010). This was clearly found to increase in people exposed to prolonged acoustic wave energy. The results of the effect of noise on human health clearly indicate the need for further research in this field. It should be emphasized that although the research and evaluation conducted by the Institute for Environmental Protection and Proeko CDM Ltd., which have been presented in this article, are pioneering and include an analysis of the cause-and-effect phenomenon, they do not, however, indicate the mechanism of the effect of noise on human health. The category rating of disease symptoms caused by the noise indicates that the key to clarifying the influence of the energy supplied to the organisms of people on the way of acoustic waves on their health may be forced supplied energy changes of biochemical reactions occurring in humans.
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