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No. 2507: El Ingeniero Olvidado


No. 2507

EL INGENIERO OLVIDADO

de Andrew Boyd


Traducción de Helena Talaya–Manso y Aymará Boggiano


Audio 2507 en español

Episodio 2507 en inglés

Hoy, celebramos las artes mecánicas. La Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Houston
y el Departamento de Estudios Hispanicos presentan esta serie sobre las máquinas que mueven
nuestra civilización, y las personas cuyo ingenio las creó.


Mucho se ha escrito sobre L� Encyclopédie de Diderot y d�Alembert.
Es un trabajo monumental compuesto por artículos de los principales pensadores de la Ilustración;
entre otras cosas allí se honra lo que hoy llamamos ingeniería.


L� Encyclopédie abre con un Discurso Preliminar de d�Alembert, que frecuentemente
se señala como un expresión de la ideas de la Ilustración y que marcó el tono para los artículos
que le sucedieron.


En un punto, d�Alembert admite una realidad inquietante: que la sociedad contempla las artes
liberales como superiores frente a las artes mecánicas: Literatura, Música, Lenguas y Filosofía
Éstas eran las artes liberales que se esperaba fueran de las clases altas adineradas, y no aptas
para las clases bajas. Frente a ellas se yuxtaponen la albañilería, la sastrería, la herrería,
la relojería y otras artes mecánicas ejercidas por las clases bajas.







De acuerdo con los ideales de la Ilustración, d�Alembert vio esta superioridad percibida como
algo “injusto” y “absurdo” a la vez. Pero como miembro perteneciente a la clase ilustrada—
y bien versado en las artes liberales—, sus argumentos a veces muestran ciertos prejuicios.


Por ejemplo, en su defensa de las artes mecánicas d�Alembert escribe: “…debido a su mayor
exigencia intelectual, la ventaja que las artes liberales tienen sobre las mecánicas,… no se
equilibra con la evidentemente superior utilidad de éstas [las artes mecánicas].”
Parece como
si d�Alembert pensara que las artes mecánicas eran superiores porque eran útiles, y no porque
requerían gran capacidad intelectual. Algo con lo que no estoy de acuerdo.


Aunque en su defensa hay que decir que d�Alembert reconoció la habilidad que requiere el
ejercicio de las artes mecánicas y lamenta cómo la historia ignoró a los inteligentes hombres
y mujeres que se ocuparon de ellas.


“El desprecio que existe por las artes mecánicas parece haber afectado… incluso a sus
inventores”,
escribe d�Alembert “Los nombres de esos benefactores de la humanidad son
casi todos desconocidos, mientras que la historia de sus�conquistadores, es conocida por todos. ..
Admito que muchas de las artes [mecánicas] han sido inventadas poco a poco y que requirió bastante
tiempo por ejemplo, llevar el funcionamiento de los relojes a la precisión que tienen hoy en día,
pero ¿no es ésta la misma verdad de las ciencias?”
D�Alembert hace una buena pregunta:
Si podemos recordar a científicos famosos ¿por qué no recordamos a ingenieros famosos?
Y continúa:


“Es más,…hay algunas máquinas [cuya] invención se debe casi por necesidad a un solo hombre
¿No merece ese genio cuyo nombre está envuelto en el velo del olvido, ser colocado a la altura
del reducido círculo de mentes creativas que nos han abierto el camino de las ciencias?


Aquí, en Invenciones de la Inventiva deberíamos responder con un rotundo “si”.


Les habló Aymará Boggiano en otro episodio de Las Invenciones de la Inventiva,
de John Lienhard en la Universidad de Houston, donde nos interesa el proceso de
la mente inventiva.




(Tema musical)



Para episodios relacionados vea, DIDEROT’S ENCYCLOPEDIA
y JEAN LE ROND D�ALEMBERT.

Una traducción en linea de L�Encyclopédie la puede hallar en
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did. Accedido el 30 de junio de 2009.

L� Encyclopédie contiene gran cantidad de ilustraciones sobre
las artes mecánicas, las que aparecen en este artículo han sido
tomadas de las siguientes páginas web:

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dispater/blacksmithgallery.htm
http://www.bookbinding.co.uk/Tradition.htm


Referencias de la Traducción:

Se puede leer información sobre l�Encyclopédie en los siguientes sitios web:
Wikipedia: Jean le Rond d’Alembert
Wikipedia: L’Encyclopédie



The Engines of Our Ingenuity is
Copyright © 1988-2011 by John H. Lienhard.



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Club Officer and other Training Opportunities for District 56 Toastmasters

The following  87  Toastmasters clubs in District 56 have completed their Club Officer training.

They are on the way to helping their members experience quality meetings and achieve goals on their road to Distinguished Status.

Congrats to:

Club Name Total Trained
Aggie Toastmasters 6
All Star Club 7
American General Toastmasters 7
Anico Articulators Toastmasters Club 4
Articulators Club 4
Bay Colony Toastmasters 4
Best Assets 4
Boeing Club 5
Brazosport Club 5
Break Time Toastmasters Club 4
Clear Lake Area Chamber Club 6
Clear Lake Communicators Club 5
Clear Lake Toastmasters Club 5
Club Health 5
Coastal Island Toastmasters Club 6
Conroe Speaks Club 5
Cy-Fair Super Speakers Club 4
Dance and Toast Masters Club 5
Daybreakers Toastmasters Club 6
Diamond Club 5
Dining Out Toastmasters Club 6
Downtown Houston Toastmasters Club 6
Dress for Success Toastmasters Club 4
Easy Risers Club 6
ExxonMobil Downtown Toastmasters Club 5
Financially Speaking 7
Firm Speakers Toastmasters Club 7
FMC Well Spoken Toastmasters 6
FW Toastmasters 4
Greater Houston Club 4
Gulf Pipeline Speakers 7
Heights Toastmasters Club 4
Heritage Plaza Toastmasters Club 5
High Noon Club 4
Houston Engineers Toastmasters 5
Houston Galleria Project Management 6
Houston Public Works Club 8276 4
HP Houston Toastmasters Club 6
InNOVators Toastmasters 4
Insperity Kingwood 4
Jacobs Toastmasters 4
JSC Toastmasters Club 5
Katy Toastmasters Club 4
Kingwood Toastmasters Club 6
Laff Masters 6
Marathon Speaks! Club 6
Master Evaluators 6
Medically Speaking Toastmasters Club 5
Memorial City Club 5
Mudslingers 5
Navitas 4
North Houston Project Management 6
Outspoken Club 6
Pensadores de Houston Club 4
Professionally Speaking Singles Toastmasters Club 6
Real Talk 5
RICH Toastmasters 4
Sharpstown Club 5
Shell We Speak 5
Silver Tongue Club 6
Skyline District Club 6
South Main Speakers Club 5
Space Explorers Club 4
Spaced Out Club 5
Spaceland Toastmasters Club 5
Speakers Connection 6
Spring Ahead Speakers Toastmasters Club 6
Storytellers 5
Sugar Land Toastmasters 5
Sugar Speakers Club 6
Sunrise Toastmasters 6
Sysco Club 4
T. rex Talkers 5
TACL Club 4
Talk Of Downtown Club 6
Talking Bull Club 4
Talking Heads Club 4
The Fountain of Praise Speakers  7
TSU- MPA Toastmasters 4
UHCL-TMC Toastmasters 4
Unity Toastmasters Club 5
Uptown Club 4
Westhollow Club 4
Woodlands Toastmasters Club 6
Word Doctors Toastmasters Club 5
Wordcrafters Club 6

This represents 554 Officers trained from 144 Clubs this winter season.

   
Number of Officers Trained Number of Clubs
0 45
1 20
2 20
3 18
4 28
5 26
6 26
7 6
Grand Total Clubs 189
2012
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Samuel Houston (1793-1863) / Personalia / North America.

Nineteenth century

Sam Houston was born in 1793 in Lexington, Virginia, the son of a professional military man. When his father died in 1807, his mother moved the family to the frontier, in Tennessee.

The boy received only a primary education, preferring visiting Indian villages to sitting in a classroom. At the age of 16, Sam left home to travel with his Indian friends. Houston stayed with the Cherokee Indians for three years, during which time he learned their language and customs.

Early in 1813, Houston enlisted in Andrew Jackson’s army, achieved a modest career advancement, fought with the Creek Indians, and received several battle wounds. After the war, Houston remained in the army and served in the Oklahoma Territory. For too close relations with the Indians, senior officers disliked him, and forced him to resign in 1818.

Houston returned to Tennessee, studied law and practiced law. In 1823, Houston was elected to the US Senate, and four years later – the governor of Tennessee. In January 1829Houston marries, but after eleven weeks he unexpectedly resigns, returns his wife to her parents’ house and leaves his native lands, returning to his Cherokee friends.

Living among the Indians, Sam adopted their traditions, wore their clothes, and even married a second time to a half-breed according to their laws. Houston visited Washington several times, where he lobbied his former senator colleagues for Indian interests. There he also met with the former commander, and now the President of the United States, Jackson. The President instructs Sam to go to Texas, where he will ensure the loyalty of the local Indians to the American settlers.

Sam arrived there during the convention in San Felipe, which decided on the statehood of Texas. There is no evidence of his participation in it. Six feet tall, with a loud voice and the power of persuasion, but a heavy drinker friend of the Indians, the Texans liked something, and they invited Houston to lead their small settler army.

In November 1835, Houston formally assumed command of the Texas military and signed a proclamation that declared Texas independent from Mexico on March 2, 1836. Houston did not take part in the defense of the Alamo and Goliad – he was engaged in training replenishment. He avoided confronting Santa Anna until he was convinced that the Texans were no longer a threat.

At the Battle of the San Jacinto River, the Texans under Houston showed Santa Anna how wrong he was. 784 Texans were opposed by an army that outnumbered them twice. On the morning of April 21, 1836, Houston attacked the peacefully sleeping Mexicans and within a quarter of an hour destroyed or captured all Mexican forces, losing only six people in battle. Among the prisoners was Antonio de Santa Anna. Houston forced the Mexican general to sign an order for the withdrawal of all Mexican troops from Texas.

On October 22 of the same year, Houston was sworn in as the first President of the Republic of Texas. Houston played a key role first in recognizing an independent Texas, and then in its accession to the Union. He was the first senator from the new state. In 1860, Houston was elected governor of Texas.

Sam spoke out against secession, calling for state neutrality or the restoration of a republic. Being a slave owner and releasing his son to fight for the Confederation, Houston did not recognize the new public entity, refused to swear allegiance to him and resigned from the governor’s post.

Samuel Houston lived only two years after his retirement, dying in 1863.

Rba Coleccionables Import data And Contact-Great Export Import

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rba coleccionables is a Spain Buyer, the following trade report data is derived from its trade data; the company’s import data up to 2022-09-15 total 353 transactions. Based on these trade data, we have aggregated the data in terms of trading partners, import and export ports, countries of supply, HS codes, contact details and other dimensions, which will help you to improve the efficiency of using your foreign trade data.

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Trading Partners

  • 1

    rba editores mexico s. de r.l.de c.v.
    mexicosupplier,they trade on 2022-09-15

    14942.94%
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  • 2

    grupo el comercio c.a.
    ecuadorsupplier,they trade on 2016-08-24

    133
    38.33%
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  • 3

    changzhou dahua imports and exp group corp ltd
    othersupplier,they trade on 2014-10-13

    17
    4. 9%
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  • 4

    distribuidora intermex s.a.de c.v.
    mexicosupplier,they trade on 2016-03-18

    16
    4.61%
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  • 5

    tov de agostini publishing
    ukrainesupplier,they trade on 2014-09-15

    92. 59%
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  • 49019904
    29
    85.29%
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  • 4
  • 01
    5
    14. 71%
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Trading Area

  • mexico
    166
    47.03%
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  • ecuador
    133
    37. 68%
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  • Russia
    19
    5.38%
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  • other
    17
    4.82%
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  • Ukraine
    92. 55%
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  • barcelona
    129
    36.54%
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  • moscow
    42
    11. 9%
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  • ua Kyiv
    92.55%
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  • houston
    6
    1.7%
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  • callao
    4
    1. 13%
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