087 October 2015

José Manuel Sánchez Ron has been distinguished with the National Essay Prize 2015 for his book El mundo después de la revolución. La física de la segunda mitad del siglo xx [The post-revolution world, physics in the second half of the twentieth century].

Fundación Juanelo Turriano takes this opportunity to congratulate its trustee José Manuel Sánchez Ron on his award.

Luis Alberto de Cuenca is the winner of the National Poetry Prize 2015 for his book Cuaderno de vacaciones [Holiday notebook].

Fundación Juanelo Turriano takes this opportunity to congratulate Luis Alberto de Cuenca, a member of its Advisory Commission, on this distinction.

The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) has awarded the International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering 2015 to José Calavera, Fundación Juanelo Turriano trustee, for his distinguished career as a structural engineer, researcher and teacher.

The Municipal Government of Segovia’s Department of Tourism is organising its First Symposium on Tourism and the Industrial Heritage, to be held on 5 and 6 November next.

This cost-free symposium’s full programme of conferences and round tables designed for tourist industry and cultural management professionals will be supplemented with visits to prominent examples of industrial tourism.

Fundación Juanelo Turriano Director Bernardo Revuelta Pol will deliver the inaugural address, entitled La aportación de la Fundación Juanelo Turriano a la recuperación del patrimonio industrial [The Fundación Juanelo Turriano and its contribution to the recovery of the industrial heritage].

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The September issue (No. 570) of the journal Historia y Vida carried an article entitled El otro Arquímedes [The other Archimedes] on the life and works of Juanelo Turriano.

The Segovia Royal Mint Museum’s new roller press will soon be operating just as the original device once did, four centuries ago. Thanks to a 3.75‑metre waterwheel donated by Fundación Juanelo Turriano, it will no longer need the electric motor that drives it today, but will run on water power drawn from the River Eresma.