A hundred years of knowledge in electrical installation. How much of it survives the next hundred?
Knowledge that disappears with its bearer can never be recovered.
Discover the story · 1910—2026Sources, regulations, catalogues, drawings and craft experience.
A new state, electrification, industry and technical education. Another layer of documentation.
Continuity is broken. Restrictions, changes in production and in documentation.
Company documentation, standards, education and corporate archives.
An influx of manufacturers, documentation and new information sources. Information grows sharply.
A professional website gradually grows into thematically linked databases.
An extensive archive of professional debate and field experience emerges. Knowledge is no longer just editorial text.
Image, interview and professional video are added to text and discussion.
Thousands of digital documents get their own repository at zdroje.elektrika.cz.
The volume of information outgrows ordinary search. The first clear reason why storage alone is not enough.
A new way of processing, evaluating and publishing factual information begins. A shift from archive to working with connections.
A prototype for retrieving, comparing and linking professional information is presented at the International Engineering Fair in Brno. Ai answers the problem of orientation in the volume of data.
The technological and knowledge path gains its own public benefit framework. The fund is founded. This is not the beginning of the whole story.
Storing is not enough. Knowledge means something only in its connections.
A photograph to a product. A memory to a period catalogue. A fault to a solution that arrived twenty years later.
Ai issues no technical judgement. It helps to search, compare and link sources. The professional decision stays with a human.
- Decadesof practice
- thousandsof decisions
- hundredsof faults
- dozensof things no textbook contains
A person leaves.
Their knowledge leaves with them.
It does not have to.
Knowledge that disappears with the person who carried it never comes back.
Knowledge can be donated too.
An old catalogue. A photograph from an installation. A document left by a predecessor. A case from practice. An hour of talking about something you did for forty years.
Please first describe the material you would like to contribute. Its origin and the possible terms of use need to be clarified before it is shared.
Protect
Capture a source before it disappears. Digitise it, describe it, record who it came from.
Understand
Find the connections and verify them. Separate fact from opinion and hypothesis.
Pass on
Explain them to the next person clearly and without distortion.
Memory and context
We have the memory.
We need the connections.
A catalogue in a company archive. A drawing in a library. An experience in a technician’s notebook. Each holds part of the answer.
Not everything exists online.
We seek to connect scattered sources, including installation guides, company literature and practical experience that may never reach a library. We can identify where a source is held and why it matters without publishing it in full.
We begin with knowledge.
A person, installation, product or event comes first. Technical standards are one of the reference sources that help place it in the context of its time.
A claim needs a path back to its source.
For important claims, the fund’s approach is to retain who supplied the information, the original or authorised reference copy, its version and its location. An internal reference copy is used for verification, not public distribution.
Elektropie
Elektropie is the name of the logo and of the philosophy behind it: the interface between the technical and the human world, expressed through electrical polarities. It is a registered trademark, not the name of a team, a membership or a job title.
About the fund
The Elektrika.ai Endowment Fund is an independent legal entity with a public-benefit purpose and its own rules. The legendary Elektrika.cz develops the land, infrastructure, archive and user space. The fund builds on these, but remains separate from commercial activities.
The fund’s professional field is electrical installation engineering in context. The fund does not represent the interests of any single company or professional group and does not issue any technical or legal assessments without expert verification.
Documents and contact
- ManifestoPDF · Czech · 348 KB
- Founding charterPDF · Czech · 4,5 MB
Account for donations
13777230/2010
Offers of donations or material to be saved: Email us, phone +420 773 123 101, or by post to the registered office.
Elektrika.Ai Endowment Fund | Bezručova 1377/7, 664 51 Šlapanice, Czech Republic | Company ID: 29900212
registered in the endowment register kept by the Regional Court in Brno, section N, file 1002 | Data box ID: 9c4ig26
Email us | +420 773 123 101 | www.elektrika.ai | bank account: 13777230/2010