Our sincere tribute to the illustrious nineteenth-century engineer from Tenerife, Agustín de Betancourt y Molina, who developed the industrial revolution in Europe by inventing the European steam engine, among other engines, founder of high-level engineering schools, as well as the builder of the new capital of the Tsars of Russia, St. Petersburg. This unique and first Sketchfab-engine creation is adapted from the “silk thread braiding machine” of Agustín de Betancourt, showing its gear wheel set and how it works. The “silk thread braiding machine” is part of the collection of machines with which the Spanish engineer had designed, worked, developed or improved during his stay in Paris, and brought to Spain in 1796. In 1798, his collaborator, Juan López de Peñalver described it in the book “Descripción de las máquinas de más general utilidad que hay en el gabinete de ellas, establecido en el buen retiro”.
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