Italian Innovators

Bicycles, tires, and the modern re-invention of the wheel. Bianchi and the birth of sports, tourism, and transportation.
* Recreating the wheel: Bianchi’s bicycle and Dunlop’s pneumatic tire
* From telegraphic cables to transportation: Bianchi and Pirelli
* The bicycle debate and the birth of Italy’s mechanic industry
* A new idea of traveling: bicycles and the Touring Club Italiano
* Fashioning Italian Sports: La gazzetta dello sport and the Giro d’Italia

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About sanctity and Innovation. The story of the Italian nun who became the first American saint.
* A people of saints, poets, and sailors
* Why is a saint an innovator?
* On a mission: from China to the United States
* Service to Italian emigrants
* Poverty and entrepreneurship
* Cabrini’s legacy today

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Educating creativity and self-mastery. How Italians made it into American schools.
* Montessori and the Lira
* Travels and studies
* Italian women and higher studies
* Working with children
* Play as an educational tool
* Global fame and political issues
* The pedagogical method - The Montessori Schools

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Italy’s love affair with coffee. Espresso making and creative thinking in Bialetti’s moka.
* About coffee and culture
* Espresso. The Italian way to modernity
* Aluminum, the Fascist metal
* The invention of the moka, one of the most iconic pieces of Italian lifestyle

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Milano, the aperitivo, and the art of cocktail.
* About Milan, the city of aperitivo
* The story of a drink, from the Camparino to the world
* How to turn a drink into a piece of art. Campari, Depero and the iconic bottle of Camparisoda
* Campari as the avant-garde of industrial art. Fellini, Sorrentino

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From the bold dreams of an Italian scientist to global broadcasting. Radio and the creation of a simultaneous world.
* From Bologna to the UK. The birth of wireless communication
* A new era of transatlantic communications
* From the rescuing of the Titanic to the Marconi scandal
* Marconi, D’Annunzio and Mussolini
* Radio and Fascism. Broadcasting and the crafting of a new language for the masses

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The myth of racing in a country of ancient ruins.
* Italian cars are about speed and beauty
* Racing as a driving force for innovation
* How Italy came to dominate the luxury car market

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Pioneering fashion design as an art. How Italy made it into the fashion industry.
* How Italian Fashion was born after WWII
* A shocking life. From Rome to London, From New York to Paris
* Schiaparelli and the Surrealists. How to turn a dress into a canvas
* Pioneering fashion as art. The Schiaparelli legacy

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How the greatest Italian tenor and the most renowned Italian publisher of musical scores made Italian opera known throughout the world.
* Did Caruso invent the record industry or the record industry invent Caruso?
* Gramophones and the global spreading of Italian opera
* How Giulio Ricordi, patron of Verdi and Puccini, became Italy’s leading musical publisher.
* The Ricordi designers, chromolithography and the birth of Italian advertising

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How the first producer of Italian clocks became the hand behind the high end department store La Rinascente and Italy’s leading publishing house Mondadori
* The first Italian factory of time
* From clockmaking to fashion: La Rinascente as a new idea of department store
* D’Annunzio, Fiume, Fascism
* From politics to publishing. Borletti and Mondadori

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