Exam Suggestions

In order to identify the main protagonists of the History of Technology the first suggestion is to look at the Historical Bibliography (Bibliografia storica) reported at the end of the book Storia delle macchine (2005 2nd edition).

In addition other names, that do not appear in the above Bibliography, but very important are:

Gustave Eiffel
Gaetano Bonelli
Tito Lucrezio Caro
José Ortega y Gasset
Filippo Brunelleschi
Carlo Emanuele III di Savoia
Dante Alighieri
Villard de Honnecourt
Mariano di Jacopo
Marziano Capella
Columella
Ctesibio di Alessandria
John Mandeville
Guido da Vigevano
Giuliano e Antonio da Sangallo
Sébastien Le Prestre, marchese di Vauban
Pier de' Crescenzi
Giulio Camillo
Camillo Tarello
Johann Heinrich Alstead
Francesco Galeani
Girolamo Pinardi
René-Antoine de Ferchault de Réaumur
Benjamin Huntsman
Adam Darby
Thomas Newcomen
John Wilkinson
Thomas Savery
Henry Cort
Henry Maudslay
Henry Bessemer
Matthew Boulton
James  Watt
John Kay
Lewis Paul
James Hargreaves
Samuel Crompton
Richard Arkwright
J.M. Jacquard
Jacques de Vaucanson
Marsilio Landriani
Nicolò Tron
Johann Beckmann
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph Schumpeter
John Smeaton
famiglia Droz
Ghiliossi di Lemie
Giacinto Carena
Auguste Comte
Andrew Ure
August Wohler
Robert Willis
Nicéphore Niépce
Ascanio Sobrero
Germano Sommeiller
Gabriele Capello
Quintino Sella
Alberto Castigliano
Federigo Menabrea
Armand Bayard de la Vingtrie
Claude Chappe
Galileo Ferraris
Enrico Mattei
Wilbur e Orville Wright
Modesto Panetti
Alessandro Dimitrevich Zassiadko
Constantin Eduardovich Tsiolkowski
Robert H. Goddard
Wernher von Braun
Camillo Olivetti
Adriano Olivetti
Pier Giorgio Perotto
Marshal McLuhan
Norbert Wiener
Alan Turing
Friedrich Pollock
Roland Barthes
Benoît Mandelbrot
Leonardo Sinisgalli
Francesco Mauro
Henry Ford
Friedrich Winslow Taylor