LEONARDO TORRES QUEVEDO: "THE MOST PRODIGIOUS INVENTOR OF HIS TIME"

Abstract

On August 8, 1916 was inaugurated at Niagara (Ontario, Canada) the first passenger cable car across North America, the "Niagara Whirlpool Aero Car". It had been built by a (specifically, Basque) Spanish company registered in Canada, The Niagara Whirlpool Aero Car Company, with Spanish capital (primarily, vizcaíno, to a lesser extent, Cantabria), Spanish administrators, engineer Spanish builder material transported from Spain Canada during World War I (eg nacelle passengers), Spanish initial commercial exploitation: in short, I + D + i a hundred years ago.