All posts by Stanislas Wielezynski

Dr. Bronisław Wojciechowski Organization of employees of the company “Gazolina” in Borysław Ever since the days of Robert Owen and the emergence of modern industry and the working class associated with it, efforts have been made to create better living and working conditions for all workers, in particular those workers who struggle to put bread on the table as they participate in the enormous and often complicated process of extracting and processing raw material. We do not all have the same idea of what happiness is, but we all feel that earning a decent wage is an essential part of happiness. Without a secure foundation for our material existence, there […]

“The Polish soldier fights for the freedom of all nations but dies only for Poland” The eldest sons of Marian Wielezynski, Leszek and Ignacy, fled Poland in September 1939 and soon joined “La 10e Brigade de cavalerie blindée polonaise” in the camp of Coëtquidan at Guer, France, where they trained under General Maczek who, after his heroic campaign of Poland, was re-organizing in France his brigade, the so-called “Black Brigade”, to continue fighting the Nazis. General Maczek was born near Lvov in 1892 and began his military career as an officer in the Austrian Army, fighting on the Italian front in 1914.  At the end of World War I, the […]

IGNACY MOŚCICKI President Ignacy Mościcki was born on December 1, 1867 in Mierzanów. He studied chemistry at the University of Riga. In 1892, due to threats from the tsarist police, he left for London. Four years later, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He developed an original method of obtaining nitrogen oxide from the air, leading to the production of nitrogen compounds and ultimately the production of explosives. His research on nitrogen, however, was only one of the early achievements of engineer Mościcki. His most important inventions include high-voltage capacitors (first installed at the Eiffel Tower) and devices that protect electrical networks against lightning. […]