Czechoslovak IC manufacturer Tesla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_a.s. (include the last period in this link!!) was named after Nikola Tesla "who briefly studied in Prague, but when the association with a Serbian American became politically inconvenient it was explained as abbreviation from TEchnika SLAboproudá, which means 'low-current technology'" - this is a much cooler expanded form imo, and it never fails to surprise me that the more I research Comecon tech, the more links I find to permacomputing...