096 February 2016

Fundación Juanelo Turriano has added 8 new titles (in Spanish) to its Digital Library, which may be viewed on line cost-free:

Caminos de hierro del Norte de España [Railways in northern Spain]. In Spanish

New Ministerio del Aire [New air force headquarters].In Spanish

El futuro Madrid [Future Madrid]. In Spanish

Artículos para fotografía [Articles on photography]. In Spanish

Proyecto para la mejora y ensanche del puerto de Barcelona [Design to improve and enlarge Barcelona port]. In Spanish

Ildefonso Sánchez del Río Pisón: el ingenio de un legado [Ildefonso Sánchez del Río Pisón: ingenuity as a legacy]. In Spanish

El mundo científico [The world of science].In Spanish

Estructura del estadio Bernabéu del Real Madrid C.F. [Structure of the Royal Madrid C.F. stadium]. In Spanish

Ms Ana Pastor, acting Minister of Public Works, cut the ribbon for the exhibition Más allá del arco: puentes de la modernidad [Beyond the arch: modernist bridges] on 9 February last.

Organised by CEDEX (Centre for Public Works Studies and Experimentation)-CEHOPU (Centre for Historic Studies on Public Works and Urban Planning), the exhibition includes a selection of works on loan from the Fundación Juanelo Turriano library.

It will remain open to the public, cost-free, through 3 April at the Ministry of Public Works headquarters, ‘Arquerías’ hall, Madrid.

How to get to the Ministry

The International Committee for the History of Technology has extended the deadline for submitting papers to its 43^rd Congress (Oporto, 26-30 July 2016), Technology, innovation and Sustainability: historical and contemporary narratives.

The new deadline is 29 February 2016.

That date is also the deadline for submitting papers to the 44^th ICOHTEC symposium, to be held jointly with the 25^th International Congress of the History of Science and Technology at Rio de Janeiro on 23-29 July 2017.

The ICOHTEC/CIUHCT Summer School, organised by the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)) and the Portuguese Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), will be delivered on 23-25 July 2016. The courses, scheduled around ICOHTEC’s 43^rd annual congress, feature three days of intensive seminars for doctoral students and recent PhD. graduates.

The deadline for registering is 29 February 2016.

The forthcoming issue of the journal Cuaderno de Notas, published by the Madrid School of Architecture’s (ETSAM) Composition Department, will be devoted entirely to the industrial architectural heritage.

The deadline for submitting papers is 15 April.

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