Calle de Boix y Morer

Two civil engineers share this plaque because they also shared much of their careers. Elzeario Boix and José Morer signed together several of the waterworks projects of 19th-century Madrid: the first stretch of piping in the Salamanca district, the city’s network of irrigation channels and, as co-authors, the design of the El Villar dam. Their names were joined on the street map in 1950. Morer (Cartagena, 1823 — Madrid, 1906) qualified in 1844 at the School of Civil Engineering, where he had taught while still a student, and joined the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences. The street runs between Cea Bermúdez and the Avenida de Filipinas, on land of the old northern expansion.