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3 unusual facts about Felice Matteucci


Felice Matteucci

This frustration contributed to the illness that eventually caused Matteucci's death, in his own home in Capannori, near Lucca.

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According to recent historical studies, the Italian inventors Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci patented a first working efficient version of an internal combustion engine in 1854 in London (pt. Num. 1072).

The principle of operation was described by the Italian inventors Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci in their British Patent no 1625 of 1857, though they never produced a marketable example.



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