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"A long flight one hundred years," presentation Friday, May 28, or and 18.30.
dell'Aviatore House, University Avenue 20 - Roma
FLORENCE, May 27, 2010 - From balloon experimental aerobatic airplanes: the pioneers of the conquest of the air in 1910 live in a real time "key" studies that will soon " air navigation" in the middle attention of the Italian public.
It is precisely in that year that Angelo Battelli, distinguished physicist at the University of Pisa and Member of Parliament, is expanding its study submitted to the scientific community nationally and internationally. And it's always in 1910 that are arranged first spectacular displays areas, recalling in Verona and Turin and a large number of curious spectators, for which the sky becomes a stage on which they performed the pioneers of aviation, sometimes accompanied famous people from or eccentric.
Among these, an enthusiastic Gabriele D'Annunzio , "father" of the word airplane , born in 1909, when the poet had its maiden flight on U.S. air force Curtiss biplane. This is how the air becomes, the more the car, the symbol of absolute speed, the power of man to soar above the field.
The book, edited by Francis boats, a descendant of the famous physicist, it includes the studies that were presented during 1910 in Verona at the international congress of scientific disciplines related to the 'aerolocomozione, and Prime National Congress of aerial locomotion of Turin.
Through conferences and the articles of Professor Angelo Battelli, relive the excitement of the scientist and the politician against a novelty that he sensed, correctly, revolutionary for science and mankind.
Between the pages of the work it turns out the "character" boats, which had a heart especially the improvement of social conditions of life, both as a scholar and as a politician and was produced actively in the social, supporting reforms of the education system, inquiring about the possibility of improving the working conditions of staff postelegrafico as a founding member and contributing to the creation of the Public Service of Cecina.
There are sections on the more technical aspects related to aviation, to airships, airplanes, air resistance and a brief critical examination of the various air navigation systems.
A historical look as seen through the eyes of the reporters of the time will give a "split" the company's early twentieth century, through a press release that testifies to the profound economic aviator and the general interest aroused by the performances of a phenomenon that was spreading more and more.
The work will be presented in national premiere Friday, May 28 at 18.30 in Rome, at the House aviation (University Avenue, 20 ).
Work Author
boats Francis was born in Rome, where he lives and works as a manager at a U.S. multinational company. A lover of contemporary history, has approached, through the stories of his grandmother and his father, the charismatic and studies of its ancestor, the physical Angelo Battelli.
Author in 2005 of an essay on the work of Angelo Battelli as director of the Institute of Physics, University of Pisa, it was later dedicated to the book "A long flight hundred years. 1910-2010 lectures and writings of Angelo Battelli Aviation "that combines the interest for historical studies with a passion for the applications of experimental physics Angelo Battelli.
