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History of Machines for Heritage and Engineering DevelopmentA Mystery of One Havana Portrait: The First Steam Machine in Cuba

History of Machines for Heritage and Engineering Development: A Mystery of One Havana Portrait:... [An iconographic detail as well as some archive documents help us to prove that the first steam machine, or the “bomb of fire” as it was called in the eighteenth century, introduced in Cuba in 1797, was constructed according to the project and under the direction of the father of modern engineering in Spain and Russia, Agustin de Betancourt y Molina who was not only a great inventor and engineer, architect and city constructor, but also one of the founders of science “Theory of Machines and Mechanisms” (TMM). He was born on February 1, 1758, on the island of Tenerife and during his life managed to visit many countries – France, England, Germany, Russia, but he never came to Cuba. However he figured prominently in the development of innovative technical ideas of the Island.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

History of Machines for Heritage and Engineering DevelopmentA Mystery of One Havana Portrait: The First Steam Machine in Cuba

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 14)
Editors: de la Portilla, J. M.; Ceccarelli, Marco
Egorova, Olga V.
History of Machines for Heritage and Engineering Development — Apr 6, 2011
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
ISBN
978-94-007-1250-8
Pages
189 –213
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-1251-5_8
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Abstract

[An iconographic detail as well as some archive documents help us to prove that the first steam machine, or the “bomb of fire” as it was called in the eighteenth century, introduced in Cuba in 1797, was constructed according to the project and under the direction of the father of modern engineering in Spain and Russia, Agustin de Betancourt y Molina who was not only a great inventor and engineer, architect and city constructor, but also one of the founders of science “Theory of Machines and Mechanisms” (TMM). He was born on February 1, 1758, on the island of Tenerife and during his life managed to visit many countries – France, England, Germany, Russia, but he never came to Cuba. However he figured prominently in the development of innovative technical ideas of the Island.]

Published: Apr 6, 2011

Keywords: Sugar Cane; Eighteenth Century; Engineering Education; Descriptive Geometry; Sugar Production

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