Torricelli
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People

  • Evangelista Torricelli
    Evangelista Torricelli
    Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer.-Biography:Evangelista Torricelli was born in Faenza, part of the Papal States...

    , an Italian physicist and mathematician
  • Robert Torricelli
    Robert Torricelli
    Robert Guy Torricelli , nicknamed "the Torch," is an American politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. Torricelli, a Democrat, served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate...

    , a former United States politician
  • Moreno Torricelli
    Moreno Torricelli
    Moreno Torricelli is an Italian football manager and former defender.-Player:Torricelli, born in Erba was one of 3 children, twin brother Paulo and sister Ariann. He started playing football when he was around 8 in the town he was living in, Verano Brianza...

    , a former Italian football player
  • Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli
    Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli
    Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli was an Italian sculptor and gem-engraver of the late Baroque active in Florence, often using colorful and semi-precious pietra dura, a type of workmanship that became a specialty of Florence. He initially trained with Gaetano Giulio Zumbo...

    , an Italian sculptor

Science

  • Torricelli's Law
    Torricelli's Law
    Torricelli's law, also known as Torricelli's theorem, is a theorem in fluid dynamics relating the speed of fluid flowing out of an opening to the height of fluid above the opening....

  • Torricelli's Equation
    Torricelli's equation
    Torricelli's equation is an equation created by Evangelista Torricelli to find the final velocity of an object moving with a constant acceleration without having a known time interval.The equation itself is: v_f^2 = v_i^2 + 2 a \Delta d \,- Derivation :...

  • Torricelli's trumpet
  • Torricelli point

Italian Submarines

Several Italian Navy submarines were named after Evangelista Torricelli
  • A Micca class submarine - built in 1918, stricken in 1930
  • Evangelista Torricelli, an Archimede class submarine
    Archimede class submarine
    The Archimede class were a group of submarines built for the Italian Navy in the early 1930s. The boats fought in the Spanish Civil War and in World War II...

     -1934, transferred to Spain in 1937, renamed General Mola, stricken 1959
  • Torricelli, a Brin class submarine
    Brin class submarine
    The Brin-class submarines were five Italian submarines that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. All ships were built by Tosi. Two boats were replacements for Archimede-class submarines secretly transferred to the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The class were...

     - 1937, sunk in the Red Sea by the British Navy in 1940
  • Evangelista Torricelli (S-512), the former USS Lizardfish (SS-373)
    USS Lizardfish (SS-373)
    USS Lizardfish , a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the lizardfish, a slender marine fish having a scaly lizardlike head and large mouth....

     - transferred in 1960 and decommisssioned in 1976

Other

  • Torricelli languages
    Torricelli languages
    The Torricelli languages are a language family of about fifty languages of the northern Papua New Guinea coast, spoken by only about 80,000 people. Named after Torricelli Mountains. The most populous and best known Torricelli languages are the Arapesh, with about 30,000 speakers.The most promising...

    , a subgroup of the Papuan languages
  • Torricelli Mountains
    Torricelli Mountains
    Torricelli Mountains is a mountain range in Sandaun Province, northwestern Papua New Guinea. The highest peak in the range is Mount Sulen at 1650 meters. The Bewani Mountains are located to the west, and the Prince Alexander Mountains are located to the east...

    , a mountain range in Papua New Guinea
  • Torricelli (crater)
    Torricelli (crater)
    Torricelli is a lunar crater in the eastern part of the Sinus Asperitatis, to the south of the Mare Tranquillitatis. The western rim of the crater is broken open and joined to a smaller crater to the west. The entire formation has a pear-shaped appearance...

    , a lunar crater in the Sinus Asperitatis
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