Umberto Nobile made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Umberto Nobile as Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer (1885-1978).
Umberto Nobile was born at Lauro in 1885. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at University of Naples Federico II.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Umberto Nobile is described as military flight engineer, airship pilot and polar explorer.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Knight of the Military Order of Savoy (1926), Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1966) and Knight of the Order of St. Olav.
Working from Italy shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1978, at 93. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Knight of the Military Order of Savoy — 1926
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic — 1966
- Knight of the Order of St. Olav
- Educated at University of Naples Federico II
- Worked as military flight engineer, airship pilot and polar explorer
