Friday 6 June at 5 pm, the Technology Library, Engineering branch, via S. Marta, 3 Florence, is organizing the event The photographic archive of Officine Galileo, as part of the national review Archivissima 2025.
The library will host a round table dedicated to lost instruments, technological innovation and the impact of historical companies on society.
During the event: photographic contest "Opere ingegneristiche mirabili", original machinery and archive collections exhibition.
Program:
5 pm | Greetings
Andrea Arnone, President of the School of Engineering
Giulia Pili, Director of the Technological Sciences Library
5:15 PM | Presentation of Archivissima and award ceremony of the photography contest
Paolo Baldi, Engineering Library
5:30 PM | Round table, Paolo Baldi moderator
Luciano Romeo, OG technician, Officine Galileo museum: History and technological innovation of the Officine Galileo in Florence
Ivan Margheri, photographer and photography historian Collaboration between Galileo and IGM, or the production of photogrammetric cameras from the origins to the early twentieth century
Giancarlo Capanni, OG engineer The photogrammetric instrumentation of the Officine Galileo from 1940 to 1970
Federico Bartalesi, OG engineer All the Galileo pendulums: tower clocks, astronomical clocks, telegraphs and disappeared observatories
Gianni Giovannini, photographer and camera collector Polaroid and the Officine Galileo: a lost story
Lorenzo Capineri, professor of Electronics (DINFO-UNIFI): Engineering at Olivetti and the transition from mechanical technology to electronics in the 1950s ‘60
Lorenzo Benvenuti, OG worker, Fondazione Lavoratori Officine Galileo archive : Birth and development of the F.L.O.G. experience
7:15 pm | Q&A, debate
The initiative is part of the Archivissima, the Archives Festival 5 — 8 June 2025
For information: bibing@unifi.it 055 2758968