Valencia Style

A building in Valencia, Spain

1930s

Architect: Javier Goerlich (1886-1972)

Photo by tonogayora @ Flickr

Madrid Deco

Cine Estudio, Círculo de Bellas Artes
Madrid

Photo by Lanpernas 2.0 @ Flickr

Talgo Train

TALGO is the Spanish acronym for "Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol" (Goicoechea-Oriol light articulated train), invented by Alejandro Goicoechea and José Luis Oriol.

Built in 1942, at the "Hijos de Juan Garay" Factory in Oñate (Gipuzcoa), Spain, it broke numerous speed records.

Read about the post-war Talgo II on Dieselpunks.org

This Is Fascism

Ambitions. Militarism. War.

Badia Vilato, 1937

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Space Suit

Spanish Colonel Don Emilio Herrera Linares designed and built a full pressure suit (escafandra estratonautica) in 1935, which was to have been used during an open-basket balloon stratospheric flight scheduled for early 1936.

The Spanish Civil War intervened. Herrera chose the Republican side, and the rubberized silk suit was cannibalized to make rain ponchos for Republican troops. In 1939 he fled to France, where he died in exile in 1967.
Herrera's suit featured an inner airtight garment (tested in the bathtub in his flat in Seville), covered by an accordion-like, pleated and jointed metallic frame. Joints were made for the shoulders, hips, elbows, knees and the fingers. When tested at Cuatro Vientos Experimental Station, the suit's pressurized mobility was found to be "thoroughly satisfactory", according to its inventor. If this was he case, it means that he solved one of the main problems of pressure suit design decades before B F Goodrich or David Clark!

Source: Encyclopedia Astronautica

Photo: Nationaal Archief @ Flickr

Ernest Hats

By A.M. Cassandre, 1926

Radio, Sweet Radio

This streamline/deco radio set was manufactured by Telefunken Radiotécnica Ibérica, Spain, since 1954. Its name was Cariño U1465. In Spanish, cariño means "sweety".

Specs @ Radiomuseum

Photo by GonchoA @ Flickr

Casablanca, Oviedo

Architect: Manuel del Busto.

1929

Photo by Gonmi @ Flickr

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Madrid Metro

The first line of the Madrid metro opened on 17 October 1919 under the direction of the Compañía de Metro Alfonso XIII, with 8 stations and 3.5 km (2.2 mi). It was constructed in a narrow section and the stations had 60 m platforms. The enlargement of this line and the construction of two others followed shortly after 1919. In 1936, the network had three lines and a branch line between Opera and Norte railway station. All these stations served as air raid shelters during the Spanish Civil War.

Photo via fotografia-de-alvaro.blogspot.com @ Flickr

Over Gran Via, Madrid

Spanish Streamline

Body by AYATS
Built for Joaquin Torrent
1935