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Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: [ɡuʎˈʎɛːlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development...

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Alessandro Volta

Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta (18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist known especially for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.   source...

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Antonio Meucci

Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo meˈuttʃi]; 1808–1889) was an Italian-American inventor and a compatriot of revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. He was best known for developing a voice...

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Leonardo Chiariglione

Leonardo Chiariglione (born in 1943 in Almese, in the province of Turin, Piedmont) is an Italian engineer. He has been at the forefront of a number of initiatives that have helped shape media...

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Felice Matteucci

Felice Matteucci (February 12, 1808 – September 13, 1887) was an Italian hydraulic engineer who co-invented an internal combustion engine with Eugenio Barsanti. It is not known whether they were the...

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Eugenio Barsanti

Father Eugenio Barsanti (12 October 1821 – 19 April 1864), also named Nicolò, was an Italian engineer, who invented a form of the internal combustion engine. It is not known whether he was the first to...

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Corradino D’Ascanio

General Corradino D’Ascanio (Popoli, Pescara February 1, 1891 — Pisa, August 6, 1981) was an Italian aeronautical engineer. D’Ascanio designed the first production helicopter, for Agusta, and designed...

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Enrico Forlanini

Enrico Forlanini (December 13, 1848 – October 9, 1930) was an Italian engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, well known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles. He was...

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Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta (26 February 1903 – 2 May 1979) was an Italian chemist and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers. He was also a recipient of...

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Alfonso Bialetti

Alfonso Bialetti (1888–1970) was an engineer who became famous for acquiring Luigi De Ponti’s invention of the simple yet elegantly designed Moka Express coffeemaker. Designed in 1933, the coffee pot...

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