Abstract

Resumen Se presenta la participación de la Comisión del Mapa Geológico de España en la Exposición Nacional de Minería, Artes Metalúrgicas, Cerámica, Cristalería y Aguas Minerales, celebrada en Madrid en 1883. Se trató de un evento que suscitó gran interés nacional e internacional, resultado de la invitación realizada por el Ministerio de Fomento para que empresas y organismos oficiales presentasen sus logros e innovaciones más recientes. La convocatoria alcanzó una gran repercusión, y a ella acudieron incluso empresas e instituciones europeas de gran prestigio. La Comisión del Mapa Geológico utilizó esta exposición como plataforma para ratificar la continuidad de la institución ante sus superiores administrativos, a la vez que para dar a conocer a la sociedad los grandes avances alcanzados en el conocimiento del suelo patrio y en la construcción del mapa geológico, en una época de afirmación de la identidad nacional. Abstract The participation of the Commission for the Geological Map of Spain in the National Exhibition of Mining, Metallurgical Arts, Ceramics, Glassware and Mineral Waters is here presented. It was held in Madrid in 1883, and it aroused great national and international interest, as a result of the invitation made by the Ministry of Development for companies and official institutions to present their recent products and innovations. The call reached great repercussion, and it was even attended by European companies and institutions of great prestige. The Geological Map Commission used this exhibition as a platform to support to the ministry the continuity of the institution, as well as to spread to society the great advances that had been made in the knowledge of the ground constitution and in the construction of the geological map, at a time when national identity was being promoted.

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