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VCTRAC digital documents the history of the Vocabulario Científico y Técnico (VCT), a Spanish-language scientific and technical terminology dictionary compiled by the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (RACEFyN).

The academy was created in 1847 by Royal Decree. A dictionary of technical terms was approved in 1848, but funding and premises problems delayed it for decades. The first volume of the Diccionario Tecnológico Hispano-Americano (DTHA-I) appeared in 1930, covering terms from "a" to "anfidinio".

The VCT appeared in successive editions: VCT1 in 1983, VCT2 in 1990 with Espasa-Calpe (about 24,000 terms) and VCT3 in 1996 with Espasa (33,467 terms). The third edition added English-Spanish and Spanish-English equivalents and new areas such as biomedicine, new materials and engineering.

Product: Scientific and technical terminology dictionary (Vocabulario Científico y Técnico) and its predecessor Diccionario Tecnológico Hispano-Americano.