Irina Swain Omeka MetsExport Plugin The software used to generate this document is called Omeka MetsExport, which operates as a plugin for Omeka. Documentation can be found at http://github/MetsExport/ The Submarine The Submarine The Submarine is located in Barcelona, Spain. Brooke Palmer, Benjamin Fraser Camille Kresz 02/09/2017 English, Spanish Document, Still Image, Sound The Submarine The city of Barcelona was full of dreamers: artists and scientists with an array of ideas that contributed to history and culture. One of these scientists was the famous inventor Narcís Monturiol. While Monturiol did not contribute to Barcelona’s physical landscape and structure, he created the first fully functional submarine to explore the waters of Barcelona: a machine he decided to call Ictíneo. Authors Hochadel and Nieto-Galan claim that Barcelonan history would not be the same, “without accounting for the role of science” (2016: 5). This is especially true in the case of Monturiol’s submarine. His invention opened a whole new world of discovery for the Catalan people and eventually, the world. Especially because Barcelona was not the only European country interested in underwater exploration at the turn of the 1800s. In Barcelona: The Great Enchantress, author Robert Hughes explains that Europeans as a whole “dreamed of probing the depths of the sea” for centuries (Hughes 2004: 88). He goes on to say that this dream came to fruition once Monturiol decided to apply engines to the contraption (Hughes 2004: 89). Not only was this a scientific achievement, it also gave Catalans a sense of pride that one of their own was able to make such a contribution to the scientific world. As the original submarine was unfortunately destroyed, a model and monument of the first submarine, Ictineo I, can be found at the entrance of Barcelona’s Museu Marítim or Maritime Museum in the Gothic Quarter (Narcís). Another monument of the submarine can be found at Plaça de Catalunya in the window of an antique shop (Hughes 2003: 82). This allows for Monturiol’s legacy to be remembered to this day. Institutions around Barcelona such as the Maritime Museum, which displays the submarine, allow “involvement of interested committed and often highly skilled citizens” in order to learn more about Barcelona’s “construction of an urban culture of natural history” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 26). While the submarine is not technically something that developed naturally, it did help scientists make more discoveries of the natural world beneath the blue, both at the time it was invented and today as the technologies from the original submarine have been the basis of underwater exploration around the globe. Works Cited “Narcís Monturiol’s Submarines Ictineo I and II”. Beyond Victorian. 2011, September 25. Web. 2016, November 14. https://beyondvictoriana.com/2011/09/25/93-narcisomonturiols-submarines-ictineo-i-and-ii/  Item changed by user 26 at 2017-02-09 11:40:36.Created manually by user