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Italian Inventions and discoveries
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Italian Inventions Invention Inventor Year Acqueduct The Romans Aerial Warfare Italian Army-War with Turkey 1911 Aerial Bombing Italian Army-War with Turkey 1911 Aerial Reconaissance Italian Army-War with Turkey 1911 Aerial Transport Italian Army-War with Turkey 1911 Airpower Strategy Giulio Douhet 1911 Afterburner (aircraft) Secondo Campini 1941 Alendronate Istituto Gentili 1980s Alphabet (Latin) The Romans Ambulance Arcicoonfraternita Della Misericordia (florence) 1244 Anemometer Leon Battista Alberti 1450 Anesthesia Ugo Da Lucca 1200 Artificial Insemination Lazzaro Spallanzani (done at Pavia) 1784 Artificial Pneumothorax Carlo Forlanini 1882 Attack Frogmen (Seals) Italian Navy 1918 Ballet Baltazarini Di Belgioioso 1489 Banks Bank of San Giorgio,Genoa 1149 Barometer Evangelista Torricelli 1643 Bassoon Afranio of Pavia 1500 Binishells (airform buildings) Dante Bini 1970s B.L.A.S.T. Algorhytm Gerard J. Foschini 1996 Books The Romans Broma Process Domenico Ghirardelli 1865 Canal (waterway) Milan 1179 Carbon Paper Pellegrino Turri 1806 Carburetor Luigi De Cristofori 1876 Cephalosporin Antibiotics Giuseppe Brotzu 1948 Clock Milan 1335 Cloning (first horse) Cesare Galli 2003 Cloning Wildlife (Gaur) Philip Damiani 2001 Cologne Johann Maria Farina 1709 Compass Flavio Gioia 1302 Condom Gabriele Fallopio 1564 Coronary Stent Cesare Gianturco 1976? Dentures The Etruscans 700 bc Dictionary Ambrogio Calepino 1502 Digital Music Giorgio Moroder 1977-1978 Digital Synthesizer (music) Giuseppe Di Giugno 1976 Double Entry Accounting Amatino Manucci 14th century Doxorubicin (Chemotherapy) Farmitalia Spa 1950s Dynamo Antonio Pacinotti 1858 Electric Battery Alessandro Volta 1800 Electric Cable Giuseppe Pirelli 1884 Electric Motor Antonio Pacinotti 1858 Electromagnetic Luigi Palmieri 1856 Seismograph Electroplating Luigi V Brugnatelli 1805 Electrotherapy Cerletti & Bini For depression Encyclopedia Domenico Bandini 15th century EndoFlex endotracheal tube Andrew J Toti Epidemiology Girolamo Fracastoro Espresso Machine Achille Gaggia 1946 Eyeglasses Salvino Armati 1280 Fast Attack Craft Italian Navy 1915 Fax Machine Giovanni Caselli 1861 Flexible Wing Francis Rogallo 1948 Fork Italy 1100 Fractal Lines (Math) Giuseppe Paseo 1896 Gelato (Ice Cream) Bernardo Buontalenti 16th century Guerrilla Warfare Quintus Fabius Maximus “Cunctator” 217 BC Harpsichord Italy-unknown inventor 1500 Helicopter Enrico Forlanini 1877 Corradino D’Ascanio 1930 Hepatitis B Vaccine Enzo Paoletti 1983 Highway the Milano Laghi 1925 Hospitals The Romans ? Hydrofoil Enrico Forlanini 1900 Hydrostatic Balance Galileo Galilei 1596 ? Inflatable Lifevest Andrew J Toti 1936 Jacuzzi Pool Tub Roy Jacuzzi 1968 Jazz Music Domenico La Rocca 1917 Jet Boat Secondo Campini 1931 “Knockout Mice” Mario Capecchi 1989 Ice Cream Cone Italo Marcioni 1896 Internal Combustion Engine Eugenio Barsanti & Felice Matteucci 1854 Internal Combustion Engine Carmelo Scuderi 2001 (Scuderi Cycle) Law School Studium of Pavia 825 Liberal Arts Curriculum Severino Boezio 500 Light Bulb (carbon filament) Alessandro Cruto 1881 Liposuction Giorgio Fischer 1974 Lotto Florence 1530 Magic Lantern Projector Della Porta 16th Century Medical School Salerno 9th century Microprocessor Federico Faggin 1970-1971 Molecular Engine Carlo Montemagno (nanotech) 1997 Montessori Method Maria Montessori 1907 Mopp Chemo for Dr De Vita Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Motor Scooter (vespa) Corradino D’Ascanio 1946 Movie Sound Track Romolo Bacchioni 1906 MPEG (precursor of MP-3) Leonardo Chiariglione 1988 Musical Notation Guido Da Arezzo 1028 Nails (metal nails) The Romans 8th century BC Neurosurgery The Romans Newspaper Venetians 1563 NitroGlycerin Ascanio Sobrero 1846 Nuclear Reactor Enrico Fermi 1942 Opera Claudio Monteverdi & Jacopo Peri 1597 Parachute Leonardo Da Vinci 1480 Paratroopers Italian Army 1927 Parawing Francis Rogallo 1957 Pneumatic Tyre Giuseppe Pirelli 1889 Mountain Paratroopers Para’Alpini (still the only ones) 1950s Mountain Troops Italian Armi-Alpini 1872 Orchestra Giovanni Gabrielli 1500s Pendolino Train Fiat Ferroviaria 1969 Perspective Drawing Paolo Uccello 15th Century Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori 1709 Polymers Giulio Natta 1957 Polypropylene Giulio Natta 1954 Plastic Surgery Gaspare Tagliacozzi 1500s Prints (of drawings) Domenico Campagnola 1500 Radio Guglielmo Marconi 1896 Roads &Road Network The Romans Roman Law The Romans Scissors (cross bladed) The Romans Sea Walls Venice 1782 Sphygmomanometer Dr Rova-Ricci Stem Cell transplant for SLE Alberto Marmont 1996 Gene Therapy Using Stem Cells as gene vectors Claudio Bordignon 1992 Stock Exchange Della Borsa Family/Van der Bourse 1600s Street Paving The Romans Symphony Giovanni Battista Sammartini 1734 Telephone Antonio Meucci 1871 Thermometer Galileo Galilei 1593 Three-Way Light Bulb Alessandro Dandini 20th Century Torpedo (weapon) Giovanni Battista Luppis 1860 Tunnel (Under a Mountain) The Romans- Passo Del Furlo Typewriter Pellegrino Turri 1808 Universal Joint Girolamo Cardano 1545 University Bologna 1083 Wheel Lock Leonardo Da Vinci 15th century Wide Screen Movies Filoteo Alberini 1914 Vermouth Antonio Benedetto Carpano 1786 Violin Italy-unknown inventor Renaissance period Viterbi Algorhytm Andrew James Viterbi 1967 Zamboni Frank J. Zamboni 1949 Other Italian Scientific Discoveries: Antiprotons Emilio Segre’ Typhoid fever- First described by Cardano Solutions to the Cubic and quartic Equations - G. Cardano Binomial Coefficients- G Cardano Binomial Theorem - G. Cardano Probability Theory - G Cardano Imaginary Numbers - G. Cardano Golgi Receptor- Camillo Golgi Golgi Stain- Camillo Golgi Digestive Processes- Lazzaro Spallanzani Stem cells responsible for causing Colon Cancer; Ruggero DeMaria 2007 Cosmic X-Rays Riccardo Giacconi Fibonacci’s Series Leonardo Fibonacci 1202 Golgi Apparatus Camillo Golgi Atherosclerosis Leonardo Da Vinci 1500s SARS Virus Carlo Urbani 2003 Nerve Growth Factor Rita Levi-Montalcini Genetic Mutations arise in the absence of selection Salvador E Luria 1943 
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