What was Giovanni Aldini's uncle recognized as the pioneer of?
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Giovanni Aldini Giovanni Aldini (April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834), was an Italian physicist born in Bologna. He was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini (1756–1826) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.
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Luigi Galvani Luigi Aloisio Galvani ( ; ] ; Latin: "Aloysius Galvanus" ; 9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who discovered animal electricity. He is recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. This was one of the first forays into the study of bioelectricity, a field that still studies the electrical patterns and signals from tissues such as the nerves and muscles.
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Edoardo Bianchi Edoardo Bianchi (17 July 1865 – 3 July 1946) was an Italian entrepreneur and inventor who founded the bicycle manufacturing company Bianchi in 1885 and the Italian automobile manufacturer Autobianchi.
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Giovanni Antonio Farina Saint Giovanni Antonio Farina (11 January 1803 – 4 March 1888) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop known for his compassionate treatment of the poor and for his enlightened views of education; he was sometimes dubbed as the "Bishop of the Poor". He served as the Bishop of Vicenza and later as the Bishop of Treviso; he is also known for ordaining the future Pope Pius X to the priesthood.
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Giovanni Soro Giovanni Soro (died 1544) was an Italian professional code-cracker. He was the Renaissance's first outstanding cryptanalyst and the Western world's first great cryptanalyst. Soro is known as the father of modern cryptography.
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Nuccio Bertone Giuseppe Bertone, also called "Nuccio", (July 4, 1914, Turin, Piedmont – February 26, 1997, Turin) was an automobile designer and constructor. He took over Carrozzeria Bertone from his father, Giovanni after World War II, growing the small business to a car building and designing powerhouse.
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Faustino Piaggio Faustino Piaggio (born 15 February 1844 in Quinto al Mare, Genoa), was an Italian industrialist who also became a pioneer of the Latin American oil industry with his businesses based in Peru.
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Giovanni Rota Giovanni Rota (1767-before 1829) apprenticed under the influential Italian luthier Lorenzo Stiorini from approximately 1787 to 1792, and spent his later years between Cremona and Mantua as a luthier. Not much about Giovanni's early life is known, save for his apprenticeship under this famous luthier. He was born in Cremona, Italy which at the time was under control of the Austrian Empire, and was in close contact with Giovanni Battista Ceruti, who was also apprenticed under Lorenzo Stiorini.
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Giovanni Casini Giovanni Casini (1689–1748) was known as "il Varlunga" (based on his native town in Tuscany). He was a portrait painter and sculptor.
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Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier, nicknamed Giovannino del Violone ("Little John of the Violone") (c. 1662 – 29 March 1700) was a Baroque Italian composer, cellist and trombone player of Spanish descent.
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Agostino Paradisi Agostino Paradisi (25 April 1736, Vignola - 19 February 1783, Reggio nell'Emilia) was an Italian poet, economist and teacher. His son Giovanni Paradisi was a scientist.
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Duryea Brothers The Duryea brothers, Charles Duryea (December 15, 1861 – September 28, 1938) and J. Frank Duryea (October 8, 1869 – February 15, 1967) were early pioneers in the automobile industry. The brothers grew up in the town of Wyoming, Illinois. Together, they invented the first gasoline-powered automobile in America.
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Luigi Gussalli Luigi Gussalli (1885–1950), engineer and inventor, was a pioneer of motor cars. He turned to astronautics in the 20’s, corresponding with world leaders in this field, such as Oberth and Goddard and exchanging with them theories on interplanetary flight and its prospects. He developed a special double-reaction engine, wrote extensively on multi-stage rockets and published two books on space travel. The first one, in 1923, described a space flight to the Moon, the second one, written in 1946, is even more astonishing in its theme: “Interplanetary travels by means of solar radiations”.
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Enzo Ferrari Enzo Anselmo Ferrari, (] ; 18 February 1898 – 14 August 1988) was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. He was widely known as ""il Commendatore"" or ""il Drake"". In his final years he was often referred to as ""l'Ingegnere"" (the Engineer) or ""il Grande Vecchio" (the Great Old Man)".
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Mauro Aldrovandini Mauro Aldrovandini (1649–1680) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. While he was most active in Bologna, and some claim he was native to the city, others claim he was born in Rovigo. He mainly painted perspective views and architectural subjects (quadratura) in private houses and for theaters. Along with the figure painter Domenico Baroni, he painted the quadratura in fresco for the Oratory of San Giovanni, (Oratory of the Fiorentini). This is a style in which he trained his more famous nephew Tommaso Aldrovandini. He also painted the second of the fifteen chapels, each one celebrating the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary and which line the long portico leading up to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca in Bologna.
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Pioneer Kitchenware Pioneer Kitchenware (), formerly known as the Ghana Pioneer Aluminium Factory, is a kitchenware retailer in Ghana. It is listed on the stock index of the Ghana Stock Exchange, the GSE All-Share Index. It was founded in 1959 by a Swiss businessman, Paul Gottfried Schwegler. It functions as a private limited company and specialises in the production of aluminium hollowware products for the Ghanaian market.
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Alvise Vivarini Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, with whom he may have trained, was Bartolomeo Vivarini. Another uncle, on his mother's side, was the artist known as Giovanni d'Alemagna, who worked with his brother-in-law Antonio. Alvise may have trained Jacopo de' Barbari.
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Albert N. Gualano Alberto Nicola Gualano was born in San Vincenzo al Volturno (now Castel San Vincenzo), Italy, 1868, to a prominent family of the region. After a primary education at Convitto Nazionale Victor Emanuel II in Naples, he emigrated to America in 1890 and was soon followed by many relatives, including his five children. He graduated from both Northwestern University and Illinois College of Law in Chicago. Admitted to the bar in 1904, he became a prominent figure within the Italian community of Chicago and active in both political and trade union circles. In 1922 he was elected Judge of the Municipal Court, and became the first American judge of Italian birth. He died in 1960 in [Sylmar, San Fernando]], California, his descendants still living in America to this day. He published many works in Italian and English, among them a few novels, as well as he played the flute, belonging to a professional orchestra directed by his brother Ettore. Member of the Illinois Bar Association, Modern Woodmen, Italo-American National Union, Order of the Sons of Italy, and Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity. In September 1922 he received from king Victor Emanuel III the knighthood of the Ordine della Corona d'Italia.
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Al Anthony Al Anthony (born Almondo Antonio Vincenzo Fiori in Endicott, New York) is an American former Los Angeles radio personality and pioneer rock and roll DJ. Anthony was most well known as a disc jockey for KAFY 550 AM in Bakersfield, California during the 1950s and later at KFXM 590 AM(KDUO-FM) in San Bernardino, California during the 1960s, where he was also the station's Director of Operations. Later, he was Executive Vice President of the Tullis & Hearne California chain of broadcasting stations. In 1958 and 1959, Anthony was the top rated DJ in the United States.
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Pietro Biginelli Pietro Biginelli (25 July 1860 – 15 January 1937) was an Italian chemist, who discovered a three-component reaction between urea, acetoacetic ester and aldehydes (Biginelli reaction). He also was studying various aspects of sanitation chemistry and chemical products' quality control.
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Budd BB-1 Pioneer The Budd BB-1 Pioneer was an experimental United States flying boat of the 1930s utilizing the Savoia-Marchetti S.56 design. Its framework was constructed entirely of stainless steel, using a newly patented method of welding that alloy.
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Pioneer Building (New Rochelle, New York) The Pioneer Building is a late nineteenth century commercial/office structure located on Lawton Street in the Downtown business district of the City of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York. The building is a good example of Neo-Italian Renaissance commercial style and represents an important aspect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century history of New Rochelle. John New & Son, the New Rochelle builder responsible for its construction, is credited with its design.