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Born Emil Škoda inPlzeň on 18 November 1839 to a physician and politician František Škoda, and mother Johanna-Margarethe Říhová. Škoda studiedmechanical engineering for four semesters at the Polytechnic Institute in Prague (now part of theCzech Technical University in Prague) and completed his degree at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe in Germany (nowKarlsruhe Institute of Technology). In 1866, he became chief engineer of themachine factory of Ernst Fürst von Waldstein-Wartenberg, founded in 1859 at Plzeň. He bought the factory three years later, in 1869, and began to expand it, building a railway connection to the facility in 1886 and adding anarms factory in 1890 to producemachine guns for theAustro-Hungarian Army. His facilities continued to expand over the next decade, and he incorporated his holdings in 1899 as theŠkoda Works, which would become famous for its arms production in bothWorld War I andWorld War II and for a wide range of other industrial and transportation products.
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