Exploring the shelves of the Pirelli Scientific and Technical Library takes one back in time to texts that were written in the late nineteenth century, and in the early twentieth, and then to the all the years that followed, up to the early 2000s. The monographs and periodicals that have been collected here illustrate the company\u2019s technological development, and they show how Pirelli engineers expanded their knowledge of rubber, tyres and electric cables by studying these tomes. Over time, it was these engineers who put their names to research papers, texts, conference proceedings and annotations, which over the years became the foundations on which later generations would build their expertise.<\/p>\n
Many of these texts were written by Emanuele Jona, an engineer from the Politecnico University of Turin, who specialised at the Montefiore Institute in Li\u00e8ge. Jona remained with Pirelli for 33 years, helping the company become one of the most advanced in Europe in the field of electrotechnics, and particularly in the submarine cables sector. This was thanks in part to the cable-laying ship Citt\u00e0 di Milano<\/em>, on which Jona personally embarked to supervise its operations. Among the texts in the Library there are important treatises on the subject, and reports on his maritime missions, including a note on \u201cOceanic Telephony\u201d of 1896, the opening speech at the congress on the \u201cDevelopment of electrotechnics in Italy over the past decade\u201d, which was held in 1906. Then there is a book dated 1913 on \u201cSubmarine cables from Italy to Libya\u201d and another on \u201cItaly\u2019s submarine routes\u201d of 1919.<\/p>\n Looking further through the volumes, another historical figure of the company immediately catches the eye: the engineer Luigi Emanueli, the son of one of Jona\u2019s assistants, who followed in his father\u2019s footsteps, graduating in industrial electrotechnical engineering and joining Pirelli in 1907, where he worked for many years in developing the cable sector. It was Emanueli who came up with one of the most important inventions in the sector: the \u201cCavo Emanueli\u201d was a cable insulated by paper impregnated with fluid oil, which eliminated the dissipation of energy at source. Among his most important writings, which are now preserved in our Scientific and Technical Library, we find various technical reports and proceedings of international conferences, such as a volume on \u201cExperimental research on dielectric losses\u201d of 1913 and one entitled \u201cOccluded gas in very high-voltage cables: some experimental results obtained in the Pirelli laboratories in Italy\u201d of 1926. A text of great interest is \u201cLuigi Emanueli and the development of high voltage cables\u201d, written by Paolo Gazzana Priaroggia, one of his closest assistants, who examines this important figure and the role he played in the field of electrical engineering, These and countless other volumes are still consulted today by engineers and researchers who want to broaden their knowledge of tyres, rubber, physics, chemistry and electric cables. A wealth of knowledge that is handed down from generation to generation, through the centuries.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exploring the shelves of the Pirelli Scientific and Technical Library takes one back in time to texts that were written in the late nineteenth century, and in the early twentieth, and then to the all the years that followed, up to the early 2000s. The monographs and periodicals that have been collected here illustrate the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":96297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,131],"tags":[341,246,241],"class_list":["post-96345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries","category-the-scientific-and-technical-library","tag-company-tales","tag-corporate-communication-en","tag-use-of-historical-materials-to-drive-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n