Summary - TST 6

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


TST 6

Juan Francisco Martín del Castillo
El Ingeniero Juan de León y Castillo y los Ferrocarriles de Barcelona (1886-1890)

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Key words: Civil engineering; Railway; Barcelona; Canary Islands; Juan de León y Castillo.

[ Abstract ]

Juan de León y Castillo (1834-1912), an important engineer from Canary Islands, supported a fluid correspondence with some companions from Barcelona (Catalonia). In this case, the letters give relevant information about trains and tramways of Barcelona’s lines from 1886 to 1890. The goal of documents was to offer to Leon y Castillo competent material in order to design and build the first line of steam tramway on Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, opened in october of 1890. The relationship between catalonian engineers (José Sanz Soler, for example) and the canarian discover many unknown points upon the net of interests of local middle-class. However, the idea of Progress, besides the concepts of Ideology and Technology, are the protagonists of this paper.