Inventors
- Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
- Enea Bossi
- Daniel DiLorenzo
- Gerard J. Foschini
- Domingo Ghirardelli
- The Jacuzzi family developed the deep well water pump that led to the famous whirlpool bath.
- Antonio Meucci (born 1808) credited by the Congress of the United States with the invention of the telephone.
- Lorenzo Ponza
- Francis Rogallo, engineer at NASA, designed the Rogallo wing, which found its greatest success in hang gliders and kites.
- Andrew Toti
- Dr. Andrew Viterbi (born 1935), billionaire, cofounder of Qualcomm, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
- Frank Zamboni
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