biography
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Menabrea, Luigi Federico (Count)
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pronunciation:
[menabraya]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1809–96)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, prime minister (1867–9), and scientist, born in Chambéry, Savoy, SE France. He was a deputy of the Piedmontese parliament (1848–60). A member of the conservative right, he held a number of posts (1861–4), and as prime minister is chiefly remembered for introducing the grist-tax, which caused a number of riots. He was also a lecturer in construction theory and an expert in rational mechanics, and put forward the ‘principle of elasticity or minimum work’, which was named after him (1871). |
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