Luis Utrilla, aeronautical engineer and historian, has published a book entitled Amable Liñán, en busca del fulgor del fuego [Amable Liñán, quest for the fire’s glow] in which he provides an account of this scientist’s life and analyses his career at the Spanish National Aerospace Technology Institute (Spanish initials, INTA), a body under the auspices of the Technical University of Madrid’s School of Aeronautical Engineering. The book also addresses Professor Liñán’s collaboration with the most prominent scientific institutions in the United States and Europe.
In addition to studying his subject’s scientific output, the author discusses the development of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and combustion science from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.