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Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 22 Mar 2020, 10:47
by Eripoblikan
Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evange ... orricelli

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 22 Mar 2020, 12:37
by Eripoblikan
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 23 Mar 2020, 03:12
by Eripoblikan
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA (Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission,[5] development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system. He is credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 23 Mar 2020, 03:15
by Eripoblikan
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 24 Mar 2020, 21:30
by Eripoblikan
Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Cristofori

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 25 Mar 2020, 11:14
by Eripoblikan
Giovanni Caselli was an Italian physicist, inventor and priest. He is the inventor of the pantelegraph, the predecessor of the modern fax machine. The world's first practical operating facsimile machine system put into use was by Caselli.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 25 Mar 2020, 14:17
by tlel
In reality it was the old Egypt that contriubted to mankind, Rome and Greek copied old Egypt after conquering it.

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 27 Mar 2020, 06:17
by Eripoblikan
tlel wrote:
25 Mar 2020, 14:17
In reality it was the old Egypt that contriubted to mankind, Rome and Greek copied old Egypt after conquering it.
That's not far from the truth, really.

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 27 Mar 2020, 06:18
by Eripoblikan
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, known as Leonardo da Vinci, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 27 Mar 2020, 11:39
by Abere
Do you believe these Italians would have saved those lives cut short by COVID-19, if they were alive now?

Re: Honorable Italians who contributed to Mankind's progress

Posted: 27 Mar 2020, 11:42
by Abere
The world wants genius from all around the world who can invent medicine to cure and stop COVID-19. I hope there are many genius Ethiopians (if given the resources and attention) out there who can invent therapeutic medicines for these kinds of malicious diseases.