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Michele Elia
was born in Auissois in Savoy on 27th November of 1829. Elia attended his secondary school at Casale Monferrato (Turin) and got a certificate as measurer in Turin in 1845.
After a short-term engagement by the Military Engineers' Body, Elia enlisted at the faculty of Maths in Turin and graduated in Hydraulic Engineering and Civil Architecture in 1851.
At the end of his study term, Elia started working for Civil Engineers as an engineer student. He remarkably got distinguished in works of plotting the railway line Novara-Arona and in this way he could pass in 1854 and become actual engineer student, with tasks of maintenance to the railway lines.
In 1863 Elia became head of service of II class in State Railways. He made an important didactical activity for the railway company, teaching to the School of engine-drivers. After this first experience he decided to devote to the carrier of teacher and in 1867 he accepted the chair of Mechanics at the Superior Technical Institute of Turin.
Thanks to his cultural education, which joined the scientific stiffness with the direct experience in an important field for the industrialisation as the railway field was, in 1870 he was called to teach Mechanic Technology at the Royal Industrial Museum of Turin.
During the years of teaching, Elia basically interested in the research, as several articles he published on the "Annali "(Annals) of the Royal Industrial Museum can witness. Among his scientific works, we can remember the treatise Principi di Tecnologia Meccanica (Principles of Mechanical Technology) (1872).
Between 1879 and 1880 Elia was officially invested with the office of director at the Royal Industrial Museum, an office which was vacant after the death of
Giovanni Codazza.
Elia died on 16th May 1883, due to ustions he got when testing a steam machine, installed at a factory of the Turinese quarter Borgo Dora.
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