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The Beginning of Air-Conditioning
Juan Manuel Gómez Agredano, Service Technician for Electricity and Air Conditioning (Electrician), 1972-What's onThe Beginning of Air-Conditioning
Juan Manuel Gómez Agredano, Service Technician for Electricity and Air Conditioning (Electrician), 1972-What's on
The Ministry issued instructions to María del Carmen Garrido and to [José María] Cabrera – I don’t remember his first name – but he was María del Carmen Garrido’s boss. They studied the question of air-conditioning. And we spent almost two years gathering information about the halls. We set up the apparatus to measure the temperature and humidity levels in each room of the museum. Some rooms had such stable temperature and humidity in a natural state that it would’ve been difficult to achieve it artificially. We gathered this information every week and, thanks to this data, they produced a study on how to provide air-conditioning for the Museo del Prado.
He began working at the Museum as an elevator operator, and he has been an electrician there since 1988.
Interview recorded on November 28, 2017
Interview index
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1972: Beginnings As a Lift Operator -
The Museum in the 1970’s -
The Museum Was Just Like Military Service -
The Car-Park at the Museo del Prado -
The Directors and the Museum Staff -
The Origin of the Montepío at the Museo del Prado -
A Strike and an Agreement for the Employees -
Day-to-Day Life of the Electricity Department Staff -
Electricity During the Night -
More Than 40 Years Providing Light for the Prado’s Works -
From Twisted Wire to LED’s -
The Beginning of Air-Conditioning -
Monserrat Caballé In Hall 16B: 16th December 1988 -
Every Picture Has Its Way of Calling to You -
A Reflection After 40 Years’ Service
- Collective
- Maintenance
- Chronology
- 1980-1990
- RDF
- RDF
Collective
Maintenance
Luis Lapausa Arango
General Operations Service Technician (Carpenter), 1960-2008
Pedro Álvarez Moreno
Head of the Area of Works and Maintenance, 1994-2009
Theme
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Voces del Prado