Narcís Monturiol

He produced a series of journals and pamphlets espousing his radical beliefs in feminism, pacifism, and utopian communism.Monturiol's friendship with Abdó Terrades led him to join the Republican Party and his circle of friends included such names as musician Josep Anselm Clavé, and engineer and reformist Ildefons Cerdà.A circle formed round La Fraternidad raised enough money for one of them to travel to Cabet's utopian community, Icaria.Ictíneo I was eventually destroyed by accident in January 1862, after completing some fifty dives, when a cargo vessel ran into her at her berth.Instead, he managed to assemble enough funds to fit the engine into the wooden Ictíneo II for preliminary tests and demonstrations.A member of the Partido Federal, he was a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of the First Spanish Republic (1873), and shortly afterwards became the director of Fabrica Nacional del Timbre (National Stamp Factory) in Madrid for a few months, where he implemented a process to speed up the manufacturing of adhesive paper.[6] He has two monuments: one in Barcelona (Avinguda Diagonal-Carrer Girona) and other at the end of the Rambla in Figueres, his native city, better known for another Figuerenc, Salvador Dalí.
Ictíneo I replica at the Museu Marítim in Barcelona.
Ictíneo II replica at Barcelona.
Side view of the Ictineu 3 , a crewed submersible named after Ictíneo I and II .
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