Italy On This Day

Monk who explained how lightning conductors work Beccaria was Professor of Physics at the University of Turin The physicist, mathematician a...

Produced light bulb hailed as better than Edison’s Alessandro Cruto was always fascinated by science The inventor Alessandro Cruto, whose at...

Priest and physicist who created world’s first ‘fax' machine Although Caselli was ordained as a priest in 1836 he devoted his life...

Pioneer of alternating current (AC) systems The engineer Galileo Ferraris saw himself as a scientist rather than an entrepreneur The...

Invention sparked wave of electrical experiments Alessandro Volta as depicted in a painting by an unknown artist Alessandro Volta, w...