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Antonio Capetti
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was born in Fermo on 15th May 1895. Capetti graduated in Mechanical Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino (1918).
Professor
Modesto Panetti wanted him as his assistant for Mechanics applied to Machines and Aeronautic Constructions.
From 1919 onward, Capetti was a lecturer (with an annual appointment) of Aircraft Engines and in 1924 he got the qualification for university teaching in Thermal Machines. One year later he was appointed as permanent non-stable professor at the chair of Thermal and Hydraulic Machines at the School of Engineering in Palermo.
From 1927 Capetti was appointed as a temporary lecturer then as full professor at the chair of Machines in the School of Engineering in Padova, where he remained up to 1934.
In Padova Capetti occupied the Institute of Machines of the Faculty, that at those years gained a large fame.
In 1934 Capetti returned to Turin as a full professor of Motors for Aircrafts. The Laboratory of Aeronautics at the Politecnico di Torino required him to realise the tunnel for engine tests under high quota conditions.
The second world war destroyed the Laboratory of Machines and Capetti, that in the meanwhile passed to the chair of Machines, engaged to manufacture it again.
From 1947 to 1955 the professor was dean of the faculty of Engineering and he cared for reorganising it. From 1955 to 1970 he was a university rector of the Politecnico and brought brilliantly to an end practices for the transfer to the new head office of Corso Duca degli Abruzzi (1958). Capetti guided the Politecnico in one of the hardest and most difficult times of the Body.
He was a correspondant member in the Academy of Sciences since 1937, national member resident in 1949, president of the Committee of Engineering in the Cnr from 1961 to 1963. In addition, Capetti was president of Ata (Technical Association of Automobiles) from 1954 to 1960 and president of the Piedmontese section of Ati (Italian Thermotechnical Association) from 1947 to 1956. He died in Turin in July 1970.
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