Ettore Bugatti

Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti was born on September 15, 1881, and died on August 21, 1947. He was an Italian-French car designer and maker. In 1946, he became a French citizen.

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Carlo Mollino

Carlo Mollino was born on May 6, 1905, and died on August 27, 1973. He was an Italian architect, designer, and photographer who lived in Turin. He worked in many areas, including architecture, interior design, furniture, photography, and writing.

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Pier Luigi Nervi

Pier Luigi Nervi was born on June 21, 1891, and died on January 9, 1979. He was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna and graduated in 1913.

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Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian-American physicist known for creating the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor, called the Chicago Pile-1, and for being part of the Manhattan Project. He won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing how new radioactive elements can be made using neutrons and for discovering nuclear reactions caused by slow neutrons. He is often called the “architect of the nuclear age” and the “architect of the atomic bomb.” Fermi was one of the few scientists who excelled in both theoretical and experimental physics.

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Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi, born on April 25, 1874, and died on July 20, 1937, was an Italian engineer, inventor, and politician. He is best known for developing a practical system that sends messages using radio waves. This work earned him recognition as a key inventor of radio.

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Felice Matteucci

Felice Matteucci was an Italian hydraulic engineer born on February 12, 1808, and died on September 13, 1887. He worked with Eugenio Barsanti to create an internal combustion engine. Their patent was approved in London on June 12, 1854.

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Eugenio Barsanti

Eugenio Barsanti (12 October 1821 – 19 April 1864), also known as Nicolò, was an Italian engineer and Catholic priest. He worked with Felice Matteucci to create the first internal combustion engine in 1853. Their patent was approved in London on June 12, 1854.

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Innocenzo Manzetti

Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti (Italian pronunciation: [innoˈtʃɛntso manˈdzetti]; 17 March 1826 – 15 March 1877) was an Italian inventor born in Aosta. After finishing primary school, he attended a school operated by Jesuits called Saint Bénin Boarding School. He later moved to Turin, where he received a diploma in land surveying, and then returned to Aosta.

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Antonio Meucci

Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci ( / m eɪ ˈ uː tʃ i / may- OO -chee , Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo meˈuttʃi] ; 13 April 1808 – 18 October 1889) was an Italian inventor who worked with Giuseppe Garibaldi, an important leader in Italy’s history. Meucci is most known for creating a device that allowed people to communicate by voice, which some sources say was the first telephone. Meucci built a system to send voice messages between his bedroom on the second floor of his home in Staten Island, New York, and his laboratory.

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Filippo Brunelleschi

Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi (1377–15 April 1446), often called Filippo Brunelleschi, was an Italian architect, designer, goldsmith, and sculptor. He is regarded as one of the first people to begin the Renaissance architecture movement. He was the first person in the Western world to receive a patent in 1421.

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