New techniques of heating in Barcelona during the second half of the XIX century Authors Francesc X. Barca Salom Universitat Polotècnica de Catalunya Keywords: heating, xix century, Barcelona, industrial engineering training Abstract Two works on heating were produced within the space of four years in the 1860s: Consideraciones generales acerca de las aplicaciones de ciertos principios científicos a la teoría y construcción de los aparatos de calefacción by Lucas Echeverria and Calentamiento y ventilación de edificios by Francisco de P. Rojas. The former was read as a paper in the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts in Barcelona in March 1864 and has remained a manuscript ever since. The latter, by contrast, was published and awarded a prize by the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences in Madrid in 1868. Both works were written by professors of the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona. We consider the two studies within their context, highlighting the innovations presented by the authors from the practical and theoretical perspectives. We show that these works, which were little known and little studied, formed part of the European trend of the time and are good examples of transfer of knowledge diffused by the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures of París to other countries.Key words: heating, xix century, Barcelona, industrial engineering training Author Biography Francesc X. Barca Salom, Universitat Polotècnica de Catalunya És autor d’estudis biogràfics de científics com: Onofre Jaume Novellas i Alavau (Torelló,1787-Barcelona,1849) Matemàtiques i Astronomia durant la Revolució Liberal. Ha realitzat treballs de recerca en arqueologia industrial com: El dic flotant i deposant del port de Barcelona. Construcció i posada en funcionament (amb X. Moreno). Ha publicat alguns estudis sobre història de l’ensenyament tècnic a Catalunya com: Els inicis de l’enginyeria nuclear a Barcelona. La Càtedra Ferran Tallada (1955-1962) (Barcelona: 2002), L’Escola Industrial de Barcelona (1904-2004): cent anys d’ensenyament tècnic i d’arquitectura (amb A. Roca, G. Lusa, J. Rosell, R. Graus, M. Villaverde) i Fàbrica, taller i laboratori. La Junta de Comerç de Barcelona: ciència i tècnica per a la indústria i el comerç (1769-1851) (coord. amb M. Pont, C. Puig i P. Bernat). Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2013-07-05 Issue Vol. 5 (2012) 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.
