Miguel Fernández y Fernández, engineer

In 1978, a young woman, from Minas Gerais, an employee of Banco do Brasil, lived in Rio in a newly rented apartment on Ipiranga Street,...

It was a Saturday in 1977, and a group of four people was outside the Army General Hospital in Benfica, Rio de Janeiro, waiting to visit...

01_ In the 1970s, during one of the many attempts to "contain" inflation in Brazil, Médici and Delfim froze public service prices in...

It was around July 1969, and I was an intern at the central office of Montreal Engineering, at 90 São José Street, downtown Rio. During...

(About Bidet, or “introduction to the study of the bidet”) The civil engineering course had a course called “Building Hygiene” also known...

The UN sponsored excellent postgraduate courses at the Instituto de Hidrologia de Madrid, which was directed by eng. Rafael Heras, and...

The first car at home was a 1961 Beetle, the color of wet brick (ceramic?), bought by my father without telling anyone: surprise. I was...

It was in 1971 that I discovered the United States (*). It was not on the wings of PanAir, as Fernando Brant and Milton Nascimento...

In mid-1971, I went to the United States for the first time in my life, together with 7 more selected/invited guests of the USIS (United...

I met Leonard Goldblatt in São Paulo, in 1971, at the company that hired us to run the SAM project, Sistema Adutor Metropolitano:...

My father was a semi-literate peasant from Orense, Galicia, Spain, who emigrated around 1930, aged about 19. He left (and arrived)...

I believe it was around 1980. Now I don't remember for sure anymore. Petrobrás launches a tender for the installation of current graphs...

My friend Rafael, around 1972 to 1973, single at the time, 25 years old, in the prime of his life, worked at the former COMASP (today...

The opening ceremony, at the brand new São Paulo Expo, had something new: the stage was surrounded by rows of armchairs. Some thought it...

As a result of the "gluten-free" text that we wrote and disseminated, we received many suggestions and contributions. We need to review...

The 13th congress of AIDIS (Asociación Interamericana de Ingenieria Sanitária) was held in Asunción, Paraguay, in August 1972. As it is...

I was told this by my excellent colleague and friend José Eduardo W. Cavalcanti (Chemical Engineer specialist in water bio-chemistry,...

Within the series of videos on subjects that allow us to get to know each other better, we are going to address the subject of “the law...

Who ever read the label on a bottle of water? Did not read? Well, read it, if you don't cry, you'll laugh I bought a bottle of...

VARIG, was the world-renowned Brazilian airline, until when it went bankrupt in 2006 (or was bankrupt, depending on the interlocutor)....