064 September 2014

The Ars Mechanicae exhibition has been extended through 16 November to concur with Science Week. One of the week’s highlights will be a conference delivered by exhibition curator Pedro Navascués on 11 November at the Science Museum in Valladolid.

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Apuntes de materiales para la construcción de firmes y pavimentos. Resumen de las conferencias dadas por D. Antonio Prieto, profesor de la asignatura, durante el curso académico 1915-16 [notes for the construction of road and other pavements: summary of lectures by Antonio Prieto, course professor, in academic year 1915-16]

Caminos de hierro del norte de España: guía descriptiva, mayo 1930 [railways in northern Spain: descriptive guide, May 1930] 

De re militari : umanesimo e arte della guerra tra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Valturius (facsimile)

Nuevo Ministerio del Aire [new air force ministry headquarters]. Huarte y Compañía S.L. Construcciones

Origen de los ferrocarriles españoles (comienzo de su historia): 1829-1855 [origin of Spanish railroads (early history)]. By Francisco Wais

El hilo de Betancourt will be staged at the School of Civil Engineering, Madrid, on Saturday 4 October. A theatrical recreation of the life of Agustín de Betancourt y Molina (1758-1824), distinguished Enlightenment engineer, the play affords an entertaining overview of this exceptional nomad, a practising inventor, designer, engineer and artist who earned renown in a hectic Europe, rocked by Enlightenment ideas, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution and Enlightened Despotism. Betancourt had to ultimately seek exile (1808) in Czar Alexander I’s Russia.

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The CHS (Construction History Society) announces that the deadline for submitting abstracts for papers to be read at its second yearly conference (Cambridge, 20-21 March 2015) is 15 October 2014.

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