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Prospero Richelmy
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was the first rector of the Application School for Engineers of Turin from 1860 to 1880. He was born in Turin on 28th July 1813. Richelmy got the degree in engineering at the University of Turin when was very young (1833) and five years later only he became an aggregate doctor into the faculty of Physic and Mathematic Sciences at the same University.
Professor of Hydraulic in the school year 1848-1849, Richelmy was a titular professor of this chair from 1850 to 1860.
In 1851 he was nominated resident member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, of which he bacame deputy president from 1869 to his death.
Since 1852 Richelmy was also a member of the Superior Council of Public Education.
Since 1860 he became professor of Applied Mechanics and Practical Hydraulics at the Application School of Valentino, and also director of the same body.
In 1869 Richelmy made build at the Valentino a new experimental hydraulic building - the Hydraulic Tower of Richelmy also named Tower of the Flows - as the factory located at Parella, where the Castle of water resorted to 1763, and was too-obsolete. The Hydraulic Tower of Richelmy continued working up to 1858, when the Institute of Hydraulics moved to the new head office of Corso Duca degli Abruzzi.
During his term as a rector, Richelmy was mainly interested in personally selecting able teachers, supplying the head office with new collections, and also protecting the Royal School against contrasts with the Royal Industrial Museum. It was not only the head office for shows and collections of materials to be collected, but it played also didactic functions hosting different technical classes for student engineers.
Richelmy was also member of the Society of Engineers and Architects of Turin, settled in 1864, as a marriage between the Application School and professionals, in view of a relationship between theoretical studies and professional teaching. Within it, Richelmy managed to allow Valentino students with the access to work yards, to directly observe the used proceedings and tecniques, with the possibility to receive any explanations by the staff. In February 1880 Richelmy started to feel the symptoms of a long desease that on 13th July 1884 brought him to death.
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