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  • Plaque recalling the birth of Eugenio Barsanti on the facade of his house, Pietrasanta.zoom in altra finestra
  • Birthplace of Eugenio Barsanti, Pietrasanta.zoom in altra finestra

Birthplace of Eugenio Barsanti

A plaque walled on a building on via Mazzini recalls that this building in Pietrasanta was the birthplace on October 12, 1821, of physicist Eugenio Barsanti who, with Felice Matteucci, invented the first prototype of the internal combustion engine (an engine that uses the internal combustion of gases to produce motive power). The habitation of the Piarist father with its elegant marble portal, is only visible from outside.

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Texts by Graziano Magrini

English translation by Victor Beard

Last update 05/gen/2008