This volume contains a selection of papers whose content have been
presented at the International conferences CIPHI on Cultural Heritage
and History of Engineering at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
in the Canary Islands, Spain, in recent years. The conference series is
aimed at bringing together researchers, scholars and students from a
broad range of disciplines referring to the History of Engineering and
Cultural Heritage, in a unique multidisciplinary forum to stimulate
collaboration among historians, architects, restaurateurs, and
engineers.
These papers illustrate, by treating specific emblematic topics and
problems, technical developments in the historical evolution of
engineering concerning cultural heritage. Thus, emphasis is given to a
discussion of matters of cultural heritage with engineering history by
reporting authors' experiences and views. Topics treated include:
reutilization of industrial heritage: the unique example of the Royal
Segovia Mint in Spain; the image of factories; Pedro Juan De Lastanosa
and "the twenty-one books of devices and machines of Juanelo"; the
historical development of paper-mills and their machines in South Latium
during 19th century; a virtual reconstruction of a wave-powered flour
mill from 1801; 3D modelling and animation study of the industrial
heritage wonders; a new model of the hydraulic machine known as "el
artificio de Juanelo"; and the mystery of one Havana portrait, on the
first steam machine in Cuba. This work has been made possible thanks to
the invited authors who have enthusiastically shared this initiative and
who have spent time and effort in preparing the papers in much more
detail that in the conference presentations.
