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  Benedetto Luigi Montel

Benedetto Luigi Montel   was born in Pisa by noblestock on 28th December 1872. In Turin he attended both the University and the Royal Industrial Museum and he graduated in Industrial Engineering in 1894.

In the same year Montel attended the class and Laboratory of Electrotechniques of Galileo Ferraris.

Two years later he was engaged by the company "Societé di Elettricité Cruto" in Alpignano, where he cared for manufacturing incandescent bulbs, accumulators and measurement instruments.

In 1898 he was engaged at the Royal Industrial Museum of Turin as a volunteer assistant for chairs of Applied Kinematics and Thermal Machines, of which he became full assistant in 1902, as well as for the Chair of Thermal Physics.

In 1906 Montel was entrusted with the course of Technical Physics and for the management of the relevant laboratory. In 1910 Montel became a temporary professor of Thermotechniques and three years later he became full professor.

Montel was able to receive (1923) a wider head office for the laboratory of Technical Physics. He equipped it with several measurement equipment and devices. He was member of the Italian Society of Physics, the Italian Association of Electrotechniques, the Board of Directors of the Italian Thermotechnical Association.

He died due to illness on 9th September 1932.


 
 
 
  
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