Jána Bahýlova

Jana Bahýlova is a Berokian scientist and engineer renowned for her discoveries in the field of mining, working as an engineer and professor at the Banská Niska University of Engineering and Mining.
== Background ==
A native from Banská Niska, from a young age Jána Bahýlova was interested in engineering. Always playing with twigs and trying to build a structurally sound structure. Her parents, who where rich engineers, supported her education as an engineer and send her to study with the dwarves of Ralmulash. When she returned Jána quickly found employment at one of the more renowned mines of Banská Niska. Not soon after she instead decided to join the local unversity, first as a student but not soon after as a lecturer. 
== Inventions ==
Bahýlova headed a group of engineers in turn 'inventing' the 'Tajchy' a series of artificial lakes designed to hold rainwater that can be later used in the machinery used to mine. Each lake is connected by to each other by a series of tunnels and bridges which are roughly 100 kilometres long. Channels divert the water from rain and the melting snow into these artificial lakes. With the whole system being able to hold 7 million m3 of water. The water is then guided towards the town were it powers waterwheels, either used in mining, metallurgy or milling. Bahýlova and her group based the Tajchy lake system on already existing smaller scale artificial lakes in the region. The invention came in a time that the shafts of Banská Niska reached levels below that of the draining shifts, in turn flooding the mines and therefore making mining near impossible. Most draining systems were build upon human and animal labour and was considered expensive. With the advent of the new system costs were reduced and mining could be once resumed. This invention essentially prevented the city from going bankrupt, as the mining industry considered the most vital industry in the city.
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