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Alfredo Galassini
was born in Modena on 23rd April 1857. Attending the first year of Engineering at the Application School for Engineers of Bologna, Galassini moved to Turin, where he got the degree in Civil Engineering on 13th September 1879.
From 1881 to 1888 he was assistant to the chair of Drawing of Machines at the Royal Italian Industrial Museum. Then he passed to a position of assistant at the chair of Mechanical Technology.
In same years since 1883, Galassini was also professor of Mechanical Technology, Drawing and Descriptive Geometry at the Royal Technical Institute of Turin.
In 1888 he participated to a competition for a position of professor in Technology at the Industrial School in Fermo, gaining the third position in the score. In 1898 he participated in Milan to the competition for the granting of the chair of Mechanical Technology, reaching the second position and so being enabled.
Galassini became a temporary lecturer of Mechanical Technology by Royal Decree dated 31st December 1903 at the Royal Industrial Museum. On 16th May 1910 he was nominated full professor of Mechanical Technology, an activity he made together with the activity of director in the Cabinet of the Mechanical Technology. The laboratory was the most ancient in the Politecnico and was established by
Michele Elia, the first Italian teacher who taught Technology.
The research activity by Galassini, in years before the first world war, was mainly featured by the attention to machine tools and textile machines, for the production of gear wheels.
Galassini published several handbooks mainly destined to courses in the Politecnico di Torino, among which we can remember the "Appunti per le lezioni di Tecnologia Meccanica" (Notes for lessons of Mechanical Technology), a full text complete with an "Atlante con 101 tavole" (Atlas with 101 tables), containing 1200 drawings made by the author. The handbook "Macchine utensili" (Machine tools) (1923) and the "Corso di fonderia" (Course of Foundry) (1924) witness the deep editorial activity by Galassini in post-war year, a period of deep growth for the Politecnico di Torino.
Galassini continued studying the Textile Technology, a subject he taught since 1909.
He died in Turin on 5th January 1940.
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