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).
Typology:
Address:
Lucca, Piazza del Giglio
Geographic coordinates:
43.8406 - 10.5034
Historic-scientific interest:
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Texts by Graziano Magrini
English translation by Victor Beard
Last update 09/feb/2008