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The First Steam Machine in Cuba: Little-Known Pages of Agustin de Betancourt’s Work and Life

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International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms

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The purpose of this paper is to prove that the first steam machine used in sugar industry of Cuba was designed by Agustin de Betancourrt, the outstanding Spanish engineer, one of the founders of “Theory of Machines and Mechanisms” science.

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  1. Department of Theory of Machines & Mechanisms, Moscow State Open University, P. Korchagin Street 22, 129805, Moscow, Russia

    Olga V. Egorova

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  1. Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan R.O.C

    Hong-Sen Yan

  2. Dipto. Meccanica, Strutture, Università Cassino, Ambiente e Territorio Via G. di Biasio, 43, 03043 Cassino, Italy

    Marco Ceccarelli

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Egorova, O.V. (2009). The First Steam Machine in Cuba: Little-Known Pages of Agustin de Betancourt’s Work and Life. In: Yan, HS., Ceccarelli, M. (eds) International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9485-9_12

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