Kraków’s technical and engineering thought has a long tradition, dating back to the turn of 16th and 17th century. Its most famous precursors include, among others, Stanisław Grzepski (author of the first Polish textbook on surveying), Stanisław Pudłowski (researcher of universal measure of lenght) and Jan Brożek (doctor of medicine, mathematician and historian of science). Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology (Polish: Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszki) is a public university located in central Kraków, Poland, established in 1946 and, as an institution of higher learning granted full autonomy in 1954.Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was born on 4th February, 1746 in the village of Mereczowszczyzna, the fourth and last child of Polish noble Ludwik Tadeusz Kościuszko and Tekla, née Radomska. Due to family’s poor financial situation, he decided to enroll in Knight Academy.