Editing Leonardo Torres Quevedo (section)

==In fiction==
Leonardo Torres Quevedo is a main character of the novel ''Los horrores del escalpelo'' (The Horrors of the Scalpel, 2011), written by [[Daniel Mares]].  The plot tells how the Spanish engineer travels to London in 1888 to find [[Maelzel's Chess Player]], a mechanical automaton that was believed to have been lost for decades. Together with Raimundo Aguirre, a thief and murderer, who claims to have the clue to the lost automaton, he begins the search through the London underworld and Victorian high society. The search is interrupted due to the streets of the [[Whitechapel]] neighborhood dawn with corpses of prostitutes, which causes Torres and his partner Aguirre to become involved in the hunt for [[Jack the Ripper]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Los horrores del escalpelo|url=https://archive.org/details/los-horrores-del-escalpelo-daniel-mares |website=[[Internet Archive]]|date=18 April 2011 |access-date=12 June 2024}}</ref>