247 February 2026

Fundación Juanelo Turriano has recently acquired a scanner to digitise its library’s collection.

The objective of the digitisation project is to facilitate access to the Foundation’s documentary resources, thus helping to preserve them and share them more widely with researchers, students and interested members of the public.

The digitised materials will be released gradually over our regular channels.

On 28 January last a group of people interested in the history and heritage of Fundación Juanelo Turriano visited our headquarters.

Accompanied by Complutense University of Madrid professor and Fundación Juanelo researcher Daniel Crespo, the visitors learned first hand about our activities and the research facilities we make available to scholars and members of the public interested in the history of engineering and technology.

On 9 February at 6:30 PM Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo will present the book Vida de Clemente Sáenz García. Ingeniero y geólogo soriano [Life of Clemente Sáenz García. Sorian engineer and geologist] at the Agustín de Betancourt Hall of the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers. It will be followed by a colloquium moderated by José María Goicolea Ruigómez, Fundación Juanelo Turriano president.

Registration in advance at this link is required to attend in person or on line.

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 53rd Annual ICOHTEC Meeting, whose theme is Engaging the History of Technology, is extended to 28 February. The meeting will be held in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on 8 to 11 October 2026.

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The Asociación para la Conservación y Estudio de los Molinos (ACEM, Association for the Conservation and Study of Mills) is resuming publication of its journal Molinum, which contains articles of interest on traditional artifices and mills.

Issue 53, the first in a new era for the journal, contains eight articles and can be accessed from the website.

See issue 53 (In Spanish)