Angela Ruiz Robles
(1895-1975)
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BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Ángela Ruiz Robles was born in Villamanín (León) on March 28 in 1895. She was a teacher, a writer, an authoress of 16 books of grammar, a stenography and a spelling, an inventor of a new shorthand method and of the mechanical book, which gave place to our current E-book.
She studied in the school of Leon’s Teachers where she gave her first lessons teaching stenography, typing and mercantile accounting. In this epoch, Angela invented a shorthand system. One year later she was nominated for teacher and director of the school La Pola de Gordón, and after earning a post in the Oppositions of National Teaching she moved to a small nearby village.
Angela was characterized by a vocation enthusiastic towards her pupils, with a methodical and practical intention, giving great importance to the language teaching, to the intuitive learning or to the use of illustrations. In 1925 her neighbors gave her a public honoring and granted a special distinction for her merits.
In 1945, Angela while she was the director in the Institute Ibáñez Martin, she was giving free lessons in the Escuela de San Jose obrero, and she created an academy where she was giving lessons to young people who had remained without work during the postwar period. For all this pedagogic and social labor, she received in 1947 the Cross of Alfonso X El Sabio.
She died in Ferrol on October 27, 1975 at the age of 80 years.
LEGACY
LEGACY
In 1949, she patented her mechanical book under the name " mechanical, electrical and to air pressure procedure for reading books ". The objectives of her invention were to update the education and make it more intuitive and pleasant.
Due to this in 1952, she was working at her new " Mechanical Encyclopedia " a bolder and perfected project than the mechanical book. With this one she wanted to diminish the weight of the school bags of the pupils. In 1962 she patented it as " a device for readings and diverse exercises " since she couldn’t construct it for the high costs of the investment. If she hadn’t invented this device, we wouldn't have the E-book that so many people have.
By Marina Clavel & Alicia Niessen
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