Paintings of the Sorolla Museum Detail of the spindle in the portrait painted by Sorolla

Joaquín Sorolla paintedin 1917 a portrait of Leonardo Torres Quevedo, in which appear two of his most important inventions: the Astra-Torres airship and the endless spindle of one of his arithmometers. In the Sorolla Museum, the outlines for preparing these inventions are preserved.

Detail of the endless spindle in the portrait painted by Joaquín Sorolla.