NOTES
(by DuoItalian)

Italy boasts an impressive history of scientists who produced many significant inventions and discoveries, dating all the way back to the Renaissance period. This list includes, but it is not limited to the following:

  • Archimedes (discovered gravity)
  • Galileo Galilei (“Father of Modern Science”)
  • Guglielmo Marconi (invented wireless telegraphy)
  • Alessandro Volta (invented the electric battery)
  • Eugenio Baransati (developed first internal combustion gas engine)
  • Giovanni Caselli (invented the pantelegraph)
  • Salvino degli Armati (credited with the first reading glasses)
  • Antonio Meucci (first inventor of the telephone)
  • Pellegrino Turri (built the first typewriter)
  • Evangelista Torricelli (invented the barometer)
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