Funicular Railway System 17-12-1907, Madrid (application date), 26-12-1927 (expiry date) (Spain) 65 Sheets of paper (application), 3 white and blue drawings on paper (plans); 32,5 × 22,8 cm Archives of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office OEPM ES42237 Leonardo Torres Quevedo, born to a well-off family in Santa Cruz de Iguña (Cantabria, Spain), studied in the Official School of the Civil Engineers between 1871 and 1876. He developed a type of aerial cableway for the transport of people. The first tests, carried out in the Iguña valley, were a success and the invention was patented in France, Switzerland, England and the United States. Another of his inventions presented here was a new system for ferries, patented in December 1907, proposing what would in time become the Spanish Aerocar used in the cataracts of the Niagara. The invention proposed several innovations in the cable system using a cable with greater section and more flexibility. His final invention for funiculars was th...