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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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 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 (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...
View ArticleFelice 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...
View ArticleEugenio 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...
View ArticleCorradino 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...
View ArticleEnrico 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...
View ArticleGiulio 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...
View ArticleAlfonso 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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