When Enrico Bernardi stepped into the local Agriculture, Industry and Arts Exhibition in Verona in 1856, he was maybe the youngest person there. Only 15 years of age, he presented his prototype of a locomotive. It was the beginning of his journey. Now Bernardi’s name is linked to the birth of the automobile. He wasn’t just talented, he also worked hard: he graduated in Mathematics at the University of Padua and remained here until 1915 as a professor and director of the ‘Department of Machines’.
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He was also a family man: the Pia motor, the first vehicle with a gasoline engine, bears his daughter’s name, while the Lauro engine, named after his son, transformed the bicycle into the first ‘moped’. His prototype of a 3-wheel automobile, designed and built ‘with his own hands’ in 1894, is known today as the ‘Bernardi vehicle’: the licence plate is 42-2 and the car is still functioning and can “speed” along on a flat road.
Knowledge is freedom.
When Enrico Bernardi stepped into the local Agriculture, Industry and Arts Exhibition in Verona in 1856, he was maybe the youngest person there. Only 15 years of age, he presented his prototype of a locomotive. It was the beginning of his journey. Now Bernardi’s name is linked to the birth of the automobile. He wasn’t just talented, he also worked hard: he graduated in Mathematics at the University of Padua and remained here until 1915 as a professor and director of the ‘Department of Machines’. He was also a family man: the Pia motor, the first vehicle with a gasoline engine, bears his daughter’s name, while the Lauro engine, named after his son, transformed the bicycle into the first ‘moped’. His prototype of a 3-wheel automobile, designed and built ‘with his own hands’ in 1894, is known today as the ‘Bernardi vehicle’: the licence plate is 42-2 and the car is still functioning and can “speed” along on a flat road.
Knowledge is freedom.