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Francesc Santponç i Roca i la màquina de Gensanne (1802?); FRANCESC SANTPONÇ I ROCA AND THE GENSANNE’S MACHINE (1802?) (2014)

Montava Gadea, Maria (Author)

Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Volume: 14
Pages: 35-81

ISSN: 1135-934X

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2099/16128

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Manuscripts Technology transfer Steam engines; steam turbines 19th century Spain Santponç i Roca, Francesc Académie des Sciences, Paris

Francesc Santponç i Roca (Barcelona 1756-1821) was a doctor from Barcelona. In addition to his medical activity he studied and developed the steam machine technology in early nineteenth century. At that time, the power of the steam engine represented the vanguard among the machines. Engineers and craftsmen had helped to develop this technology with important contributions that tried to solve the problems of these big machines. The fighting spirit of people such as Savery, Newcomen, and Watt drove a promising technology. This was the same spirit that led Santponç to accept in 1804 the challenge of building one of these machines for a textile manufacturer in Barcelona. This paper investigates a manuscript kept in the Santponç’s family archives. The manuscript describes the “simplification” that Gensanne made in a steam engine. The paper offers an analysis of the text, establishing an approximate date of the writing. The study signals that the manuscript is a Spanish translation of a description of the Gensanne’s machine published by the French Academy of Sciences. The Santponç text constitutes a highly significant example of his process of learning the steam-engine technology. As an appendix, we offer a transcription of the manuscript.

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