News View All García-Diego International Prize. Awards ceremony Garcia Diego international prize News The awards ceremony for the García-Diego International Prize for History of Engineering was held on 20 April. This biennial prize is organised and funded by Fundación Juanelo Turriano. The event was held at Spain’s Engineering Institute. Two first prizes were awarded in this eight edition: to Eduardo Díaz-Pavón Cuaresma for his study: El hundimiento del tercer depósito del Canal de Isabel II en 1905 [Collapse of the Canal de Isabel II third water tower in 1905] and José Luis Sánchez Peral for his, entitled Canal del Henares: una centenaria obra hidráulica inglesa a las puertas de Madrid [Canal del Henares designers and builders: 100-year-old British waterworks just outside Madrid]. Two second prizes were likewise granted: to Víctor Pérez Álvarez for La implantación del reloj público en Castilla y la medida del tiempo en la Baja Edad Media [The institution of the public clock in Castile and time measurement in the Lower Middle Ages] and Nelson Arellano Escudero for La ingeniería y el descarte artefactual de la desalación solar de agua. Las industrias de las salinas, Sierra Gorda y Oficina Domeyko (1872-1907’) [Engineering and the artefactual dismissal of solar desalination; the Sierra Gorda and Oficina Domeyko salt industries (1872-1907)]. The speakers at the event were Instituto de la Ingeniería de España President Manuel Moreu, Fundación Juanelo Turriano Vicepresident Pedro Navascués, judges’ committee chairman Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo and the prize winners.
García-Diego International Prize. Awards ceremony Garcia Diego international prize News The awards ceremony for the García-Diego International Prize for History of Engineering was held on 20 April. This biennial prize is organised and funded by Fundación Juanelo Turriano. The event was held at Spain’s Engineering Institute. Two first prizes were awarded in this eight edition: to Eduardo Díaz-Pavón Cuaresma for his study: El hundimiento del tercer depósito del Canal de Isabel II en 1905 [Collapse of the Canal de Isabel II third water tower in 1905] and José Luis Sánchez Peral for his, entitled Canal del Henares: una centenaria obra hidráulica inglesa a las puertas de Madrid [Canal del Henares designers and builders: 100-year-old British waterworks just outside Madrid]. Two second prizes were likewise granted: to Víctor Pérez Álvarez for La implantación del reloj público en Castilla y la medida del tiempo en la Baja Edad Media [The institution of the public clock in Castile and time measurement in the Lower Middle Ages] and Nelson Arellano Escudero for La ingeniería y el descarte artefactual de la desalación solar de agua. Las industrias de las salinas, Sierra Gorda y Oficina Domeyko (1872-1907’) [Engineering and the artefactual dismissal of solar desalination; the Sierra Gorda and Oficina Domeyko salt industries (1872-1907)]. The speakers at the event were Instituto de la Ingeniería de España President Manuel Moreu, Fundación Juanelo Turriano Vicepresident Pedro Navascués, judges’ committee chairman Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo and the prize winners.