Jakub Kryštof Rad
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Jacob Christoph Rad in Czech Jakub Kryštof Rad, was a Swiss-born Czech entrepreneur who invented the sugar cubes in 1841 as a director of a sugar factory in Dačice
in Moravia
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The idea to produce sugar cube came from his wife, who got injured when she was cutting sugar loaf into smaller parts. She asked her husband to do something about it and she got the sugar cubes during the same year.
Dacice
Dačice is a town in the southwest Moravia, currently belonging to the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has cca 8,000 inhabitants. It is notable as the home of the sugar cube, which was invented there in 1843 by Jakub Kryštof Rad....
in Moravia
Moravia
Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...
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The idea to produce sugar cube came from his wife, who got injured when she was cutting sugar loaf into smaller parts. She asked her husband to do something about it and she got the sugar cubes during the same year.