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Leonardo Torres y Quevedo

Spanish engineer

Died when: 83 years 356 days (1007 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (Spanish: [le.o'na?ðo 'tores i ke'ßeðo]; 28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936) was a Spanish civil engineer and mathematician of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Torres was a pioneer in the development of the radio control and automated calculation machines, the inventor of a chess automaton, and a innovative designer of the three-lobed non-rigid Astra-Torres airship and the Whirlpool Aero Car located in Niagara Falls.

With his Telekine, Torres-Quevedo created wireless remote-control operation principles. He was also a famous speaker of Esperanto.

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