Cesare Zanetti
Cesare Zanetti (1859-1894)
1894 Obituary [1]
CESARE ZANETTI was born at San Benigno in Piedmont on the 25th of April, 1859.
After being educated at Stresa on Lake Maggiore, and at Novara, where he showed great aptitude for mathematics, he was entered in 1877 at the University of Turin.
From 1879 to 1882 he attended the Engineering School in that city, from which he obtained a diploma as a Civil Engineer. Mr. Zanetti was then engaged for three years on the construction and maintenance of the Turin and Superga Railway, a funicular line worked on the Agudio system.
From 1885 to 1887 he was employed in Sicily on the surveys and estimates for the Patti, Valsavoia and Caltagirone Railway and for the proposed Mount Etna line.
In 1887 Mr. Zanetti was appointed a Sectional Engineer on the survey, location and construction of one of the most difficult portions of the Central Railway of Venezuela,...[more]