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Emilio Herrera
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Emilio Herrera Linares
13 February 1879 |
| Died | 13 September 1967 (aged 88) |
| Children | José Herrera Petere |
Emilio Herrera Linares (born February 13, 1879, in Granada, Spain – died September 13, 1967, in Geneve, Switzerland) was a smart Spanish military engineer and physicist. He was very interested in flying and space.
Life and Discoveries
Emilio Herrera was born in Granada in 1879. He became interested in the military and science from a young age. His father was also in the military and liked science. This helped Emilio develop his own interest in military science.
He finished his studies at the Academy of Military Engineering of Guadalajara in 1902. After that, he started researching how things fly, called aeronautics. He even spent some time at the University of Santander.
Emilio Herrera is famous for his work on flying very high up. He also studied how to travel to space and even early computers. One of his most important inventions was a special suit. This suit was designed to protect people flying in the very high parts of the Earth's atmosphere, called the stratosphere. He planned to use it for a balloon flight in 1936. This suit is seen as an early version of the space suit that astronauts wear today.
During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), Emilio Herrera stayed loyal to the Second Spanish Republic. This was the government of Spain at the time. In 1937, he became a general in the military. After the war, he lived in exile. He served as a minister in the Spanish government that was in exile. He even became the Prime Minister of this government between 1960 and 1962. Emilio Herrera was also the father of the poet José Herrera Petere.
In Movies and TV
In 2020, actor Vicente Romero played Emilio Herrera in the Spanish TV show El ministerio del tiempo.
See also
In Spanish: Emilio Herrera para niños
