Leonardo Torres Quevedo Street

Leonardo Torres Quevedo mathematician, very important
in the field of aeronautics and engineering. Born in Santa Cruz de iguana (Cantabria, Santander,
Molledo), December 28, 1852. Madrid
December 18, 1936. Leonardo studied high school in Bilbao
at the Institute of Secondary Education in 1868 is going to Paris for two years to
finish studies. In 1874 he finished his studies with 4 being in his class.

His father was an engineer Luis Urquijo Vildósola road
in Bilbao where
he was railroad engineer who was inspired to do what it was. His mother was
Valentina de Quevedo, his maternal grandparents José Manuel Torres Quevedo and
Apellinaría de la Maza.
 Paternal grandparents were José Luis Torres Vildósola.






Spanish was an important inventor in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth was Telekino who patented the system and remote
control that uses radio waves and perfected in 1906. He invented tribulation in
a dirigible (1902-1909) and in 1901 invented a machine to solve algebraic
equations of any denegre, was also a player who innovated automatario capable
of beating human opponent and in 1920 introduced an electric calculator.




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