Felice Matteucci

Their patent request was granted in London on June 12, 1854, and published in London's Morning Journal under the title "Specification of Eugene Barsanti and Felix Matteucci, Obtaining Motive Power by the Explosion of Gases", as documented by the Fondazione Barsanti e Matteucci.

[1][2] Born in Lucca, Tuscany, Matteucci studied hydraulic and mechanical engineering, first in Paris, then in Florence.

They worked together to turn the primary concept into a manufacturable item, eventually developing a model suitable for mass production.

This frustration contributed to Matteucci's illness that eventually caused his death, in his own home in Capannori, near Lucca.

The documents concerning the priority of Barsanti and Matteucci’s engine and their patents in England, Piedmont, France, Belgium and Prussia are kept in the archive of the library of the Museo Galileo in Florence.