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Water and weight driven mechanical clocks, by Spanish Muslim engineers sometime between 900–1200 AD. According to historian Will Durant, a watch like device was invented by Ibn Firnas. Magnetic wormhole - first ever manmade wormhole created at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona by Spanish physicist Jordi Prat-Camps. The magnetic wormhole ...
Santiago Ramón y Cajal fathered modern neuroscience and was the first person of Spanish origin to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906). This is a list of inventors and discoverers who are of Spanish origin or otherwise reside in continental Spain or one of the country's oversees territories .
Pages in category "Spanish inventions" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Such views were condemned in their turn as anti-Spanish propaganda, drawing on the studies of Julián Juderías. His 1914 work "The 'black legend' and historical truth" [32] claimed that a wide range of Spanish scientists had been active during the Spanish Golden Age. His list can be found in a footnote to the Spanish Wikipedia article.
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Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol (Catalan pronunciation: [nəɾˈsiz muntuɾiˈɔl i əstəriˈɔl]; 28 September 1819 – 6 September 1885) was a Spanish inventor, artist and engineer born in Figueres, Spain. He was the inventor of the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine.
Each of these inventions is consistent with the modern definition of engineering, exploiting basic mechanical principles to develop useful tools and objects. The term engineering itself has a much more recent etymology, deriving from the word engineer , which itself dates back to 1325, when an engine’er (literally, one who operates an engine ...
Juan de la Cierva was born to a wealthy, aristocratic Spanish family, and for a time his father was the war minister. [4] At the age of eight he was spending his pocket money with his friends on experiments with gliders in one of his father's work sheds.