Felice Matteucci [SEP] occupation
Felice Matteucci
Felice Matteucci (February 12, 1808 – September 13, 1887) was an Italian hydraulic engineer who co-invented an internal combustion engine with Eugenio Barsanti. Their patent request was granted in London on June 12, 1854, and published in London's Morning Journal under the title "Specification of Eugene Barsanti and Felix Matteucci, Obtaining Motive Power by the Explosion of Gases", as documented by the Fondazione Barsanti e Matteucci.
Born in Lucca, Tuscany, Matteucci studied hydraulic and mechanical engineering, first in
urinary tract.
Meteorology.
- John Francis Campbell invents the original form of Campbell–Stokes recorder (for sunshine).
Technology.
- Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci first develop the Barsanti-Matteucci engine, an internal combustion engine using the free-piston principle.
Awards.
- Copley Medal: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Adolphe d'Archiac; Édouard de Verneuil
Births.
- January 24 – Alfred Senier (died 1918), British chemist.
- February 15