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Euclide Silvestri
was born on 19th November 1876 and he died on 7th June 1954 in Turin. Silvestri graduated in Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino.
On February 1900 Silvestri was nominated as assistant for Hydraulics. He became full professor in 1931, succeeding to professor
Scipione Cappa.
Then he took the direction of the historic Laboratory of Hydraulics, created in 1869 by
Pospero Richelmy
for the experimental study of techniques of large hydraulic works.
In 1910 Silvestri performed some detections on the Cavour Channel, whose he published outflow scales. In the meanwhile he designed some hydroelectric stations, studying their coordination from 1917 to 1923, as a consultant of Messrs. Ansaldo of Turin, within the plan for creating power to be used for industrialing the Valley. During the above excursions he detected some glaciers and their movements, he collected in a set of works from 1924 to 1926.
Silvestri was a commissioner first a president later of the Irrigation Consortium of Gerbole di Rivalta.
In 1930 Silvestri was appointed deputy podesta for administering the town of Turin, an office he kept up to February 1935, stressing mainly hydroelectric plants of the municipal company. In March of the same year Silvestri was nominated president of the new born mine and metallurgic complex of the National Society Cogne.
Silvestri was nominated senator in October 1939.
In April 1952 he participated to the second day of Science held by the National Council of Researches at the Exhibition of Milan, on the subject of the soil defense and on the arrangement of mountains and rivers. In agreement with the above office, he contemporaneously occupied of the irrigation of the countryside of Poirino, consequently rising waters. In occasion of the opening of the 94th Academic year of the Politecnico, on 5th November 1952, he was awarded with a golden medal as a memory of his offices for the School.
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