Reasons and achievements of the mobility and professional activity of portuguese engineer Cândido Celestino Xavier Cordeiro (1842-1905)

Abstract

Through the biography of engineer Cândido Xavier Cordeiro, an engineer who worked in the second half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century, i.e. in a period that began with the Regeneration and with a policy of material improvements in the country, we try to get closer to issues such as: the conditions of scientific and technical training in the country; the way in which training abroad and study visits favoured the transfer of ideas and technologies; the transfer of technology and its application to the works being carried out in the country; the importance of the development of the railway; the intervention of these men in the country's administrative and central and local affairs.