Alle radici della moderna ingegneria : : competenze e opportunità nella Firenze dell'Ottocento / / a cura di Franco Angotti, Giuseppe Pelosi, Simonetta Soldani.

• Superior document: Studi e saggi
• TeilnehmendeR: Angotti, Franco, 1941-,; Soldani, Simonetta, 1942-,; Pelosi, Giuseppe, 1952-,
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 91455.
• Language: Italian
• Series: Studi e saggi ; 92
• Physical Description: xii, 140 p. :; ill. ;; 22 cm.
• Notes: Papers presented to a conferences, Florence, 2009.; Florence (Tuscany).

The subject around which the contributions in this volume gravitate is the creation of a higher institute of engineering studies in Florence in the late nineteenth-century. On the eve of the unification of Italy, Florence was a promising centre for a Polytechnic, in view of the experience of the Cor...