“Este precioso instrumento que al fin no se ha inventado para adornar escaparates”. Batteries in the Nineteenth Century Spanish Telegraphy System Authors Ángel Toca Institut d'Estudis Catalans Keywords: Batteries, Physical and Chemical Theories, Telegraphists, XIXth Century, Spain. Abstract From 1856 to 1892, the “Revista de Telégrafos” published more than 170 articles on batteries, thirty percent of them were written by Spanish telegraphists who had been trained as electricians. In many of these articles authors used chemical theories and explanations about batteries, instructions on their operation, care, and cleaning. We will try to discover what were the reasons of this strategy and if telegraphists were able to achieve the goals that they envisaged in their papers.Key words: Batteries; Physical and Chemical Theories; Telegraphists; XIXth Century; Spain. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue Vol. 12-13 : 2019 Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCHCT declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
