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Aldo Bibolini
was born in Sarzana (La Spezia) on 16th August 1876 and died in Turin on 30th June 1930. Bibolini made his university studies in Pisa. In 1898 he got the degree in Civil Engineering at the Engineering School of Rome, where he attended also the special course in Electrotechniques.
After having been assistant in Technical Physics and Mechanics Applied to Machines, between 1900 and 1902 Bibolini was deputy director of the Italian Society for Electrical Furnaces in Rome and technical director for the Italian Society of Cars Bernardi in Padova.
In 1902 he won the competition for engineer of the Body of Mines at the district Office of Finance. This is the reason why Bibolini attended a series of refreshing courses at the Ecole des Mines in Liegi, also attending the annexed electrotechnic Institute in Montefiore, graduating in 1904 as an Engenieur Civil des Mines et Engenieur Electricien.
The same year Bibolini returned to Italy and was assigned to the district office of Caltanisetta, where he taught Construction, Mineralogy, Geology and Electrotechniques at the annexed school of mines, whose he became deputy director. Always in Caltanisetta Bibolini managed the mine of Testasecca, caring of reordering crystallographic collections.
On 1st November 1908 Bibolini was moved to the mine district of Vicenza with the task of managing the School of Mines in Belluno, where he taught Mineralogy, Geology, Metallurgy, Mechanical Education and Growing of Mines.
In 1913-14 he attended as an external student the courses at the Laboratory of the Museum of Mineralogy and Petrography of Paris, annexed to the Sorbone University.
In 1917 he was moved to Iglesias due to an Austrian invasion.
In this period, his studies in minerology and geology and the implementation, in co-operation with the engineer Riboni, of an electrostatic grading machine and the relevant static converter for high potentialities, later made more perfect and protected by Italian, French, English and USA patents, are very important.
Bibolini conceived other mechanical devices such as a volumeter, a diagram-meter, a self-classifying mill for mines and a new bushing for geologists manufactured by Messrs. Salmoiraghi. In 1918 the Government entrusted him to educate and manage the Geologic and Mine Division of the Eritrean Colony in Asmara. Under this occasion, Bibolini made several explorations of a remarkable scientific relevance, among which those at Dancalia and in the North-Eastern side of Eritrea.
On 3rd August 1920 Bibolini started teaching Mine Technology at the Politecnico di Torino. From 1935 to 1947 he taught Mine Art always at the Politecnico. In this period, he arranged the final head office of the section of Mine Engineering, made modern technological laboratories of the very institute, extended naturalistic museums of the Politecnico and re-set the relevant collections. Bibolini was appointed as a deputy director of the Superior Institute of Engineering (1933-38) and, in 1945, he became the director. He was entrusted with several classes, among which Geology and mine beds from 1924 to 1935, Mineralogy and Geology from 1931 to 1935 and Special Mine Technologies from 1936 onward.
The thick academic activity by Bibolini is also marked by his role of member in the Lunigiana Academy of Sciences Giovanni Capellini (from 1927), of member in the Committee for Geology in the National Council for Researches (from 1929), National Member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin (from 1937) and permanent member of the American Institution of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers (from 1939). Bibolini was the author of more than forty works of geology and mines.
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