Born in Livorno in 1847, Galileo Ferraris taught at the schools of Engineering and War in Turin. In 1888 he founded the secondary school of electronics, which today bears his name and is the National Institute of Electronics. In 1885 he became famous all over the world for his ingenious discovery of rotating magnetic fields which allow electric energy to be harnessed and transported from large distances. In 1893 Edison invited Ferraris to the Congress at Chicago for the leading people in the field of electronics. He died in Turin in 1897.
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