Investigating the figure of twelve European foreigners who settled in the Region of Murcia and contributed with their work to the opening and modernization of our region, and publishing a collective work on its protagonists, are the objectives pursued by the project ‘Huellas de la europeanización in the Region of Murcia’, through a traveling exhibition that has passed through the cities of Cartagena, Mazarrón, Águilas, Lorca, Murcia and Cieza.
The project, directed by the professor of Anthropology at the University of Murcia and curator of the sample, Klaus Schriewer, has the municipalities involved and is organized by the UMU, the Jean Monnet Chair, the Center for European Studies and the Murcian Society of Anthropology, and is sponsored by the Seneca Foundation and the Autonomous Community of Murcia.
The last locality to integrate has been Abarán. One of these twelve Europeans was Bernardo H. Brunton, some of whose descendants are abaraneros, specifically the García Brunton family. The researchers of the History of Science from the University of Murcia Pascual Santos and Manuela Caballero are the architects of the exhibitions by Cieza and Abarán. The latter was inaugurated last weekend at the CIMA Center. They have spent twenty years studying the figure of Brunton (Stepney, 1871-Blanca, 1953), an English engineer based in Cieza who installed the San Antonio light factory in the El Menjú area in 1896 and brought lighting to Cieza and Abarán and who has the main role in the exhibition.
Both historians, who thanked the mayor of Abarán, Jesús Gómez, the Brunton family, professors Antonio Francisco Gómez and José Carrasco, councilor Felipe García, and the head of the library, Mari Carmen Gómez, for their help and interest, highlighted the figure of Bernard H. Brunton. Of the one hundred patents on esparto grass registered between 1907 and 1975 in Cieza, Abarán and Blanca, the first were the six from Brunton that were dedicated to improving the work of women esparto mincers with roller machines that replaced chopping mallets. , in addition to obtaining the mechanical spinning of esparto grass that was developed in the industry set up in 1913 by Brunton and his partner Luis Anaya Amorós, with Catalan capital, Manufacturas Mecánicas de Esparto, SA.
Among the objects that make up the exhibition are family photos, old press news and the ATM invented by Brunton and Anaya in 1913 to promote savings and industrial investment, property of the Núñez Brunton family, from Blanca, and a clockwork mechanism , prior to the final solution of the ATM and property of the Anaya family, “which served so that a bolt was drawn at a scheduled time and a sliding plate could be opened where the necessary coins for the daily spending of the house were removed,” they argued. blind researchers.
The exhibition will remain until March 22 in the CIMA building, and is associated with two conferences: ‘Bernard Haslip Brunton, the mark of an English engineer in the Region of Murcia’; held yesterday, and the second, ‘Bernardo H. Brunton, a pioneer in the industrialization of the Murcia region’, this Thursday the 2nd, given by Manuela Caballero and Pascual Santos, respectively.
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