Timeline

1860 – 1870

1862

The Santa Águeda factory in Kastrexana is founded

1865

The Bizkaia Provincial Council established the Triano mining railway and installed 8 loading docks in the estuary

1867

The project of expansion of Portugalete, promoted on October 13, 1867, was carried out by the businessman Luciano Urízar Echevarría

1868

The invention of the Robert furnace to obtain air-hardened steel. Robert Forester Mushet perfected the Bessemer process of solving quality problems. This converter was installed in La Vizcaya

1868

Compañía de los Diques Secos sortu zen

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