What is the best invention in Spain? 10 You can't live without the Spanish invention

Do you know that some items you use every day are actually the products of Spanish inventors? Look at this list of inventions and learn more about how Spanish creativity affects your daily life!

1. mop

Mop was invented by an engineer named Manuel FoutaDjallon and a member of the Spanish Air Force in 1956, which was the progress of housework at that time. Before this Spanish invention, people had to wipe the floor on their hands and knees with wet rags.

2. Submarine

The ship was built by Isaac Pairard, an engineer in Murcia. He designed an electric submersible, which completely changed underwater navigation. The first Pairard submarine was made of steel and built for military purposes. 1888 was successfully launched and is currently on display in Cartagena (Murcia).

Stick candy

1957, Enrique Bernadette had a revolutionary idea: to make a candy hung on a small stick. This simple invention soon spread all over the world. Chupa Chups is a popular lollipop brand in Spain. It was founded in 1958 and has been owned by an Italian-Dutch multinational company named Perfetti Van Melle since 2006.

Chupa Chups logo was designed by artist salvador dali in 1969. Decades later, it became the first candy consumed in space in 1995.

4. Table football

Have you ever played this interesting game with your friends? Alejandro Campos Ramirez is a poet, publisher and inventor from Galicia. He is famous for his invention: table football or table football.

During the Spanish Civil War from 65438 to 0936, Campos was injured and had to be hospitalized for a long time. There, he met many children who complained that they couldn't play football. That's why he decided to create table football. His great idea was patented by 1937.

5. Digital calculator

Blaise pascal was the first inventor of a calculator using wheels and gears, but the Spanish civil engineer and mathematician Leonardo Torres Quevito invented the first digital calculator around 19 14.

6.cable car

This is another of the most important inventions in Spain. It was also invented by Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, who registered his first patent "Multi-track Cable Car System" at 1887.

1907, the first Torres Quevedo cable car was used for public transportation in Monte Ulía (San Sebastian, Basque country). Because of its success, this invention was quickly exported. There are famous examples, such as the space shuttle Niagara Falls, which was also created by Torres Quivito.

7.classical guitar

The classical six-string guitar as we know it today was developed in Spain from13rd century to18th century, which is the evolution of Guwei Hula. It is also called Spanish guitar, concert guitar or classical acoustic guitar.

8. cigarettes

Legend has it that around the16th century, beggars in Seville began to roll the tobacco they collected from garbage into thin rice paper. However, it was not until 1825 that cigarettes were packaged for sale for the first time. In fact, the first batch of cigarettes was sold at 1833.

9.disposable syringes

Manuel FoutaDjallon, the inventor of mop, has made many contributions to the health care industry. He also invented the disposable hypodermic syringe, which is a great progress in stopping the spread of the disease.

10. rotary-wing aircraft

/kloc-in the 1920s, the Spanish engineer Juan de la Sierra invented and manufactured this kind of aircraft, which was regarded as the pioneer of modern helicopters. At that time, the advantage of rotorcraft over traditional aircraft was that it could take off and land in a very small space.