Tosi, Franco (1850 - 1898)

Designer, founder

Franco Tosi was engineer and captain of industry in the second half ox 19 century by carrying out an intense activity for company management and design in several fields of mechanical engineering. He was a personality of reference in his time within national frames because of a recognized reputation of his works of industry manager that still today are considered of fundamental importance.
Mechanics of machinery, machine design

variant spelling:
Tosi, Franco

Curriculum vitae

* 21.04.1850	Villa Cortese	born
1876	Legnano	He moved to Legnano to work at the company Cantoni-Krumm
1877		He developed new steam motors
* 1884		He became the only owner of the company with new name Franco Tosi & Co.
† 25.11.1898	Legnano	died

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Industrialisation, ca. 1850-1920

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DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=24647004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_24647004.html

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Tosi, Franco (1850 - 1898)