La Hispana de Barcelona (1852), una fábrica de ladrillos innovadora Authors Jesús Sánchez Miñana Abstract The origins of ancient La Hispana brickworks in Barcelona are described as well as some developments that took place during its first years of successful operation. Military engineer Ambrosio Garcés de Marcilla designed the factory on the basis of an English machine that he saw at the 1851 London universal exhibition, intended to mould the newly introduced hollow bricks as well as other more traditional building materials. He was also the promoter and main partner of the company established in 1852 and later provided the factory with another machine that he claimed to have invented to mould solid bricks by compressing the clay soil directly instead of the mud made with it. La Hispana produced the first hollow bricks used in Barcelona and very likely in Spain. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2008-11-24 Issue Nova època, vol. 1 (1) : 2008 Section History of technology and technological networks 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.