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  • Birthplace of Felice Matteucci, Lucca.zoom in altra finestra
  • Commemorative plaque on the facade of the birthplace of Felice Matteucci, Lucca.zoom in altra finestra

Birthplace of Felice Matteucci

A plaque walled in 1932 on the façade of Palazzo Arnolfini in piazza del Giglio, recalls that this building in Lucca was the birthplace in 1808 of physicist and engineer Felice Matteucci who, assisted by father Eugenio Barsanti, invented the first prototype of the internal combustion engine (an engine that uses the internal combustion of gases to produce motive power).

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Texts by Graziano Magrini

English translation by Victor Beard

Last update 09/feb/2008