Arturo Caprotti
Arturo Caprotti (22 March 1881 – 9 February 1938) was an Italian engineer and architect. In 1915 or 1916 he invented the Caprotti valve gear rotary cam poppet valve gear for steam engines of all kinds, but in practice it was employed almost exclusively in railway locomotives.
External links[]
- Continental engineers at www.steamindex.com
Categories:
- 1881 births
- 1938 deaths
- Locomotive builders and designers
- 20th-century Italian architects
- Italian mechanical engineers
- 20th-century Italian engineers
- 20th-century Italian inventors
- Italian architect stubs