Nayara:Torres was born on 28 December 1852, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, in
Santa Cruz de Iguña,
Cantabria, Spain. The family resided for the most part in
Bilbao,
where Leonardo's father worked as a railway engineer, although they
also spent long periods in his mother's family home in the Cantabria's
mountain region. In Bilbao he studied to enter an advanced high school
program and later spent two years in Paris to complete his studies. In 1870, his father was transferred, bringing his family to
Madrid.
The same year, Torres began his higher studies in the Official School
of the Road Engineers' Corps. He temporarily suspended his studies in
1873 to volunteer for the defense of Bilbao, which had been surrounded
by
Carlist troops during the
Third Carlist War. Returning to Madrid, he completed his studies in 1876, fourth in his graduating class.
He began his career with the same train company for which his father
had worked, but he immediately set out on a long trip through Europe to
get to know the scientific and technical advances of the day firsthand,
especially in the incipient area of electricity. Upon returning to
Spain, he took up residence in Santander where he financed his own work
and began a regimen of study and investigation that he never abandoned.
The fruit of these investigations appeared in his first scientific work
in 1893.
He married in 1885, and had eight children.
In 1899 he moved to Madrid and became involved in that city's cultural life.
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