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Julia Rodríguez-Maribona (November 12, 1923, in Avilés – March 16, 2005, in Neuchâtel) was a Spanish nurse, who was considered the inventor of the mop, along with her mother Julia Montoussé Fargues. [1] [2] [3] [4]
[2] José María Algué (1856–1930), meteorologist, inventor of the barocyclometer, the nephoscope, and the microseismograph. [3] [4] José Antonio de Artigas Sanz (b. 1887), created luminescence with noble gases. Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont (1553–1613), registered a design for a steam-powered water pump for use in mines. [5]
The Prestige is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jonathan Nolan and is based on the 1995 novel by Christopher Priest. It stars Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier and Christian Bale as Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in Victorian London who feud over a perfect teleportation illusion.
Ángela Ruiz Robles (March 28, 1895 in Villamanín, León – October 27, 1975 in Ferrol, A Coruña) was a Spanish teacher, writer, pioneer and inventor of the mechanical precursor to the electronic book, invented 20 years prior to Michael Hart’s Project Gutenberg, commonly referred to as the true inventor of the e-book, and over half a century before present-day e-books.
Pages in category "Spanish inventors" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft [1] [2] called Autogiro, [3] a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language. In 1923, after four years of experimentation, De la Cierva developed the articulated rotor, which resulted in the world's first successful flight of a ...
A field-sequential color television system similar to his Tricolor system was used in NASA's Voyager mission in 1979, to take pictures and video of Jupiter. [2]There was a Mexican science research and technology group created La Funck Guillermo González Camarena or The Guillermo González Camarena Foundation in 1995 that was beneficial to creative and talented inventors in Mexico.
In the 1980s, Bernat failed a take-over of the insurance company Iberia de Seguros to fund a new Catalan investment bank. [2] Despite the loss, he gained ownership of Gaudi's Casa Batlló. [2] In 1991, he passed formal control of Chupa Chups to his son Xavier. [2] The Smint subsidiary brand/company was founded in 1994. [6]