Emilio Herrera Linares

Emilio Herrera
Born
Emilio Herrera Linares

(1879-02-13)13 February 1879
Granada, Spain
Died13 September 1967(1967-09-13) (aged 88)
Geneve, Switzerland
ChildrenJosé Herrera Petere
Stratospheric space suit prototype, designed by Herrera for stratospheric flight c. 1935

Emilio Herrera Linares (13 February 1879, in Granada, Spain – 13 September 1967, in Geneve, Switzerland) was a Spanish military engineer and physicist.[1]

Biography

He was born in Granada, 1879 and became interested in the military from a young age. His father served in the military as well as attended science fairs and conventions, this would lead to his interest in military science. He graduated from the Academy of Military Engineering of Guadalajara in 1902; he subsequently researched aeronautics, including a brief period at the University of Santander. He is best known for his work in cosmology and pioneering studies for high-altitude flight, spaceflight, computing, and for designing the pressurised stratonautical space suit that was to be used in a planned stratospheric balloon flight in 1936 and that is considered one of the antecedents of the space suit.[2]

During the Solar eclipse of August 30, 1905, he used an aerostatic balloon to study the phenomenon of shadow bands that are produced during the eclipse. He concluded that the bands were an atmospheric phenomenon.[3][4]

During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), he remained loyal to the Second Spanish Republic. In 1937, he was made a general. He was a minister in several Spanish Republican government in exile and Prime Minister of the Republic in exile between 1960 and 1962. He was father of the poet José Herrera Petere.

Works

  • Herrera, Emilio (1984). Flying : the memoirs of a Spanish aeronaut. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826307521.

In Fiction

In 2020 he was played by actor Vicente Romero in the Spanish series El ministerio del tiempo.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "The ENAIRE Foundation presents the 30th Anniversary Honorary Aeronautical Award to Emilio Herrera". ENAIRE (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-03-27.
  2. ↑ "Space suit designed by Emilio Herrera". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2025-03-27.
  3. ↑ Castell, Pedro Ruiz (2008). Astronomy and Astrophysics in Spain (1850-1914). Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 978-1-84718-439-9.
  4. ↑ Herrera y Linares, D. Emilio (22 June 1911). "Observación aerostática de las sombras volates en el eclipse de sol del 30 de agosto de 1905" (PDF). Asociación española para el progreso de las ciencias.
  5. ↑ "Salvador se reencuentra con Emilio Herrera en 'El Ministerio del Tiempo'". Diez Minutos. 9 June 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  6. ↑ "El aplaudido homenaje de El Ministerio del Tiempo al genio granadino Emilio Herrera: "¿Sabe por qué es tan grande?"". Ideal. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2022.


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