Giuseppe Zara (

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, 1856 –

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, 1915) was an

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n inventor. He was a member of the

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, and the director of

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from 1905. He graduated at the Technical Institute of Fermo in 1875, and started working as a repairing operator in

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, he was later sent to

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where he worked as a designer. In the emergency of having faster and cheaper trains, he invented a simple

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system to replace Mogul 130 in steam locomotives ( « ''Carrello Italiano'' ») which was used from 1907 to 1930 not only in Italian train companies, but also in others like the

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* ''Giuseppe Zara'', in ''Collegio Ingegneri Ferroviari Italiani'', a. 4, 7 (1915), n. 4, pp. 161–164 *Gianni Robert, ''Le ferrovie nel Mondo'', Milano, Vallardi, 1964, p. 514 *Guido Corbellini, ''Il cinquantenario delle Ferrovie dello Stato'', in ''1905-1955. Il Cinquantenario delle Ferrovie dello Stato'', in ''Collegio Ingegneri Ferroviari Italiani'', 10 (1955), n. 5-6, pp. 333-528, ISSN 0020-0956. Ristampe in volume: Roma, Collegio Ingegneri Ferroviari Italiani, 1955; Roma, Collegio Ingegneri Ferroviari Italiani-Ponte San Nicolò, Duegi, 2005, *Angelo Nascimbene, Aldo Riccardi, con la collaborazione di Federico Rigobello e Pierluigi Scoizzato, ''1905-2005. Cento anni di locomotive a vapore delle Ferrovie dello Stato'', in ''Tutto treno tema'', (2005), n. 20, pp. 53-56, 59. ISSN 1124-4232. 1856 births 1915 deaths Italian engineers People from Fermo {{Italy-engineer-stub