A DOCUMENTARY SERIES BY DIGITAL WOXTER TECHNEWS
SPANISH GENIUSES
The forgotten story of Spanish science
Spanish inventors and scientists who changed technology and whom almost nobody remembers. Each episode runs about twelve minutes and every fact is checked against reliable sources. Episodes are in Spanish.
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EPISODE 1
Leonardo Torres Quevedo: forerunner of the computer and the remote control
In September 1906, in the bay of Bilbao, a boat with nobody at the helm obeyed orders sent through the air. From the Telekino to the first cable car open to the public, the chess-playing machine El Ajedrecista, the Spanish Aero Car over the Niagara and his calculating machines: the story of the engineer from Cantabria who was ahead of his time again and again.
11:47 · 21 October 2026
Watch on YouTubeMade with real archive photographs and AI-assisted reconstructions of places and machines. Sources are listed in each video description.
