In the history of technology, Giovanni Battista Caproni is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Giovanni Battista Caproni as Italian aeronautical engineer (1886–1957).
Giovanni Battista Caproni was born at Massone in 1886. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at Technical University of Munich and University of Liège.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
He worked as aerospace engineer, businessperson and aircraft pilot.
His name is attached above all to Caproni aircraft-manufacturing company. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
That the work was done from Italy matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Giovanni Battista Caproni died in 1957, aged 71. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Educated at Technical University of Munich, University of Liège and Royal Elizabethan School
- Worked as aerospace engineer, businessperson and aircraft pilot
