A Brief History of Technology in Argentina - Short Industrial History of Argentina
- Department of Exact Sciences in Buenos Aires (UBA) - 1865
First Engineer: Mr F. Huergo - 1870
- Heavy Shipbuilding Industry
Steel Shipyards in Puerto Belgrano - 1860
TANDANOR in Buenos Aires - 1879
ASTARSA - 1930
Río Santiago Shipyard - 1950
- Automobiles - Car Manufacturing:
First Argentine-made automobile. Anasagasti, 1912
First self-propelled combine harvester in the world - Rotania, Santa Fe - 1929
Integrated assembly line vehicles, 1952 (IAME) to the present, with 7 car factories and several truck factories
"Pampa" tractors in 1954
Puma motorcycles 1952
- Airplanes and engines - Airplanes & Aircraft engines:
Engines & Planes Factory in Cordoba from 1927 to the present
First jet-propelled aircraft in the Americas in 1947 -> Pulqui 1, and in 1951-> Pulqui 2 (Rolls-Royce Nene turbine)
Pampa advanced jet trainer, 1970
Augusto Cicare, in Saladillo, Buenos Aires - 1961 to the present
- Oil and petrochemicals - Oil & Petrochemicals:
Discovery in Patagonia, 1919. Exploration and exploitation begin.
Foundation of YPF, 1922, beginning of the petrochemical industry.
Drilling with local tools.
"Vaca Muerta oil field", big area with fracking since 2012
First gas pipeline, with recompression plants, 1952.
- Pulp and Paper - Paper Mills:
From 1929 to the present, producing all types of commercial paper.
Newspaper since 1971.
First ballpoint pen - from László Bíró - 1943.
- Fingerprint Identification:
First fingerprint cards for identification - from Juan Vucetich - 1891.
First PVC plant, DPH SA, 1942.
- Chemical Industry and Paints:
First paint plants. and derivatives, Bunge y Born, 1925
- Textiles - fabric Manufacturing:
Integrated plants from fiber to fabric, since 1925
- Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Energy (CNEA):
From 1950 to the present. Two heavy water-moderated reactors in
operation (1975/1985) and the third, Atucha II, resumed construction in
2009. The proprietary technology cycle was completed in 1983 with 20%
plutonium production at Pilcaniyeu. 4 particle accelerators, 6
experimental reactors, 4 exported atomic research centers, 1 technology
center. In June 2020, construction resumed on the first CAREM modular
reactor, 25 MW, with a 100% local design.
- Precision Metalworking - HighTech Nuclear Derivatives (INVAP):
From 1976 to the present. Manufacturing of reactors, radioisotopes,
zircalloy tubes, titanium parts, cobalt-60 bombs, critical
instrumentation, industrial robotics, SAC I/II/III artificial
satellites, aeronautical and 3D surveillance radars, dedicated software,
etc.
- Heavy Steel Industry - Steel Mills:
- First blast furnace in 1962 - SOMISA
- Turnkey plants since 1970 for all types of known industries, with proprietary technology
- Manufacturing of ships, trains, locomotives, large diesel engines, and hydroelectric power plants (IMPSA) until 1976
- World monopoly since 1995 in the production of seamless tubes (DALMINE)
- Aluminum - Aluminum Manufacturing:
Local manufacturing since 1970, using Australian bauxite, at ALUAR SA
- Electronics Industry - Advanced Electronics:
Since 1938, FAPESA-Philips, thermionic valves.
Electronic Calculators: Second largest American manufacturer by
production in 1975: Fate Electrónica SA (CIFRA calculators, CIFRA
computers). The leading company at the time was Hewlett-Packard of the
USA.
Design and construction of microprocessors (chips) at CITEFA, 1976.
Since 1964, railway traffic controls, instruments, variable speed motors, inverters, radio communications, telemetry.
Dr. Enrique Finochietto, innovation in surgical clinics and special instrumentation - 1912.
*** Nobel Prizes for research in medicine, chemistry, and biology: B. Houssay (1947), F. Leloir (1970), César Milstein (1984).
First coronary artery bypass surgery, Dr. René Favaloro, 1967.
1998 - Cloning of ruminants; first cloned calf in 2002: "Pampa" - for hormone production. Growth
Genetic manipulation for the production of very high-yield vegetable seeds.
Gen modification in bacteria for the production of generic drugs (proprietary technology)
2001: Bacteria dedicated to environmental remediation.
2004: Dr. Raquel Chen, from UNL and CONICET, develops, patents, and
licenses the HB4 gene to Bioceres for growing sunflowers, wheat, and
soybeans in low-moisture conditions.
2012: INTI and UNSAM (Dr. Ugalde) graft human genes into a bovine
embryo, resulting in the birth of Rosita, the first calf to produce
humanized milk.
Production and export of all types of software since 1982.
1997: First website for online stock market management (remember
www.Patagon.com, sold for US$500 million to an international bank).
2003: GLOBANT digital services; by 2008-2009, it becomes already a multinational company. Pragma and G&L Group also export.