Sacyr's Blog

Thanks to a new composite created with textile fibers, through a university-led project, waste materials could be reused for facade cladding, floating flooring and acoustic false ceiling. 

One day Mary Anderson was on a streetcar and noticed that the driver had to repeatedly wipe the snow off the window. She came up with a solution: a wiper activated from inside the vehicle to remove the snow. We analyse how the windscreen wiper was born and other great inventions originated by women.

A team of MIT scientists hopes to turn virtually any surface into a noise-cancelling speaker. Details about the novel technology behind this goal have been published in the scientific journal IEEE Transactions of Industrial Electronics.

From the first device capable of recording and reproducing sound to the forerunner of the modern film projector and an alkaline battery for electric cars. We look at the achievements of one of history's most famous inventors, who was awarded more than 1,000 patents in the United States.