%0 Journal Article %T LAS M¨¢QUINAS DE VAPOR EN LA OBTENCI¨®N DEL AZ¨²CAR DE CA£¿A EN ESPA£¿A: AN¨¢LISIS COMPARATIVO %A ROJAS-SOLA %A JOS¨¦ IGNACIO %A URE£¿A-MAR¨ªN %A JOS¨¦ RAM¨®N %J DYNA %D 2012 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia %X this paper presents a research of the history of the technology applied used for the production of sugarcane, making a comparative analysis of the main steam engines widespread in spain, were of scottish technology mirrlees-watson and french technology fives lille. it has been briefly outlined the process for obtaining sugarcane, and also a brief description of the main features of both in its similarity to finish exposing a comparative analysis in terms of power by analytical and graphical methods (dynamic power diagram ). as a result of this study, the superiority of the mirrlees-watson engine in front of the fives-lille in total to the power has been exposed. %K sugarcane %K steam engines %K industrial archaeology %K fives-lille %K mirrlees-watson. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0012-73532012000100023&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en