In 2007, Amazon launched Frowning And thus, the journey of e -books began, the format that today lives with paper literature, whose path began in the middle of the day Gutenberg projectBut also has a precedent, who was the work of the Spanish teacher long before the e -book was invented.
Ángela ruiz Robles: a teacher who has been published in an e -book
Was Angel Ruis RobbleThe widowed teacher who worked at the school in Galicia, who invented the so -called mechanical encyclopedia and is considered the predecessor that the electronic books will be later, from the similarity of some details, and are also aimed at the release of the physical burden of books.
Angel Ruis Robbles was born in 1895 in Willmanin, a small town in Leon, in a rich family thanks to her father’s pharmaceutical business, and gave her an education that would make her become a teacher in 1916, when she completed her academic training in this sector. Only two years later he ended up in Galicia, in the coastal city, and it is in this area that he would develop most of his career.
It was a mechanical encyclopedia Ruise Robla
And in Galicia it was when he created his invention in 1948, Mechanical encyclopediaWith whom he wanted to facilitate the burden of his students and facilitate the training, which he also looked with his three daughters at home, about which he is engaged in the widow after the death of her husband for a heart attack.
The mechanical encyclopedia was a pale -green box, which was the size of a textbook and allowed to read words in any language and in any subject thanks to its internal mechanism. And this is that in his covers there were three horizontal drums contained in each of them scrolls that could be exchanged, and each understands another topic.
These scrolls contained a text, as well as drawings or figures, and this precedent of the e -book was also focused so that it could be read in the dark. She herself, which created the mechanism, and various scrolls that worked thanks to drum drums and described it as a whole as a “mechanical, electrical procedure and air pressure to read books”.
At first he patented him in 1949 and receive a second patent when creating another prototype in 1962, when the similarity was created at the Ferrolus shipyard, whose work itself controlled the work. “The fact that she invented continued in the future. Every time I see one (an electronic book), I remember my grandmother, ”said his grandson Daniel in an interview with New York Times, where in 2023 a late necrologist in the section was dedicated to her.
Angel Ruis Robble He was looking for investors to produce and develop his invention, which never happened, and it is even said that he resigned from some proposals, because he wanted him to develop in Spain, where he did not find anyone who was interested, despite the fact that he tried until the end of his ideas.
Educational work outside the mechanical encyclopedia
In addition to the invention of the mechanical encyclopedia, which is considered the predecessor of electronic books, she devoted herself to the education at the Elmaca Academy in Ferrola, both day and night, for people with limited resources and worries about the development of methods with difficulties that were sometimes made, in particular, in their homes.
In 1943, she became the director Hospice National School of GirlsFor girls, a heditan was worried that they received education and prosperity in their lives. He will die in October 1975 at the age of 80, and not seeing his invention produced in Messa.
Nevertheless, today its mechanical encyclopedia is considered today a precedent of the e -book, and partially, therefore, there is a prototype in National Museum of Science and Technology In Korun, and his predecessor work more than half a century before the first e -book.
