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Angelo Bottiglia
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was born at San Maurizio Canavese (Turin) on 10th November 1850. Graduated in engineering, Bottiglia started his carreer within civil constructions. Then he was appointed engineer to the service of the railways of the Company Alta Italia. Bottiglia distinguished himself in the field of Applied Mechanics, thanks to his project of transforming the old Stephenson locomotives.
In 1885 Bottiglia was an assistant at the Application School for Engineers, professor of Machine Composition at the Royal Italian Industrial Museum and teacher of Kinematics and Applied Mechanics in other Institutes of the town.
In 1896 Bottiglia got the chair of Machine Composition at the Application School for Engineers, and he kept it to 1926.
The professor was very loved and esteemed by his students, to the extent that when the Friendly Associations of Engineers Graduated at the Valentino (1908) was settled, his students appointed him as president for life. At the end of his activity, he was awarded with a golden medal and a parchment. Under this occasion the foundation of an annual prize named after Angelo Bottiglia for the study of Machine Composition was communicated.
He had several charges: member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture, director of the Royal Deposit of Farming Machines, component of the Foresty Committee, commissioner and reporter of Juries in national and international Exhibitions, president of the Farming Committee in Ivrea, of the Italian Thermotechnical Society, of the Society for Engineers at Valentino, councellor of Ivrea town and province councellor for the above district.
Bottiglia died in Turin on 10th November 1934.
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