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Anthology of Italian Physics (1855-1944) |
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Ferraris Galileo (1847 - 1897) | | Papers on line: | G. Ferraris, Ricerche teoriche e sperimentali sul generatore secondario Gaulard e Gibbs, del prof. Galileo Ferraris, Il Nuovo Cimento, 1 (1885), 105-117: | - Part I | | - Part II | | G. Ferraris, Ricerche teoriche e sperimentali sul generatore secondario Gaulard e Gibbs, del prof. Galileo Ferraris (continuazione), Il Nuovo Cimento, 28 (1885), 12-49: | - Part I | | - Part II | | G. Ferraris, Ricerche teoriche e sperimentali sul generatore secondario Gaulard e Gibbs, del prof. Galileo Ferraris (continuazione e fine), Il Nuovo Cimento, 28 (1885), 115-127. | | G. Ferraris, Rotazioni elettrodinamiche prodotte per mezzo di correnti alternate, nota del prof. Galileo Ferraris, Il Nuovo Cimento, 23 (1888), 246-263. | | G. Mengarini, Necrologia di Galileo Ferraris, Il Nuovo Cimento, 5 (1897), 231-247. | |
| | Papers in Il Nuovo Cimento: | | | Galileo Ferraris was born in Livorno Vercellese on October, 3, 1847. | He was one of four sons of a pharmacist and became one of the electrical innovators of the 1880's. | At the age of ten he went to live in Turin with an uncle physician , who guided the boy's education in sciences. | He spent three years at the University of Turin and two years at the Application School of Turin. | In 1869 he took the degree in Engineering ; his thesis was on propagation of electricity in homogenous solids. | He has been: | - Assistant of Prof. Codazza at the Royal Industrial Museum of Turin (from 1870)
- Doctor at the Faculty of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences at the University of Turin (from 1872)
- Teacher of Industrial Physics at the Royal Application School of Turin (from 1877)
- Professor of General Physics at the War School (1877)
- Professor at the Application School of Engineering of Turin (from November, 1, 1878)
- Delegate of the Italian Government in the jury at the International Electricity Exposition at Paris (1881)
- Delegate to the Paris Conference on electrical units standards (1882 )
- Italian delegate to the Electrical Exposition in Vienna (1883)
- President of the International section of the Electricity Exposition in Turin (starting from 1883)
- Director of the electro-technical laboratory of the Industrial Museum of Turin (from December, 16, 1888)
- Vice-President of the Electrical Exposition in Chigago in 1893 where the henry, the joule and the watt have been adopted
- Italian delegate at the Congress of Genčve (summer 1896)
- Senator of Italian Reign (October, 21, 1896)
- One of the founders of the Electrotechnical Italian Association in Milan on December 1896
- President of Metrical Italian Commission (from 1897)
| Ferraris died in Turin on February, 7, 1897 at the age of 50. | In "Il Nuovo Cimento", Ferraris wrote 11 papers: | - 10 on Electromagnetism
- 1 on Electricity
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