{"id":3514,"date":"2026-07-14T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museobarcalariana.it\/eventi\/conference-engineering-becomes-magic\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:29:51","slug":"conference-engineering-becomes-magic","status":"publish","type":"eventi","link":"https:\/\/www.museobarcalariana.it\/en\/eventi\/conference-engineering-becomes-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: \u201cEngineering Becomes Magic.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Event organized by the Associazione Piroscafi Lariani<br\/>to mark the BICENTENNIAL of NAVIGATION on LAKE COMO<\/h4>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday, September 6, 5:00 p.m.<br\/><strong>Lecture: \u201cEngineering Becomes Magic.\u201d <\/strong><br\/><em>Speakers: Antonio Collini and Marcello Baldrati <\/em> <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After steam power, the advent of the hydrofoil was undoubtedly the greatest revolution in lake navigation, cutting travel time from north to south from 4 hours to about 90 minutes. Antonio Collini and Marcello Baldrati, two leading experts in high-speed navigation, will explain how hydrofoils came to be used on the lake, the basic principle behind how they work, and what the future holds for this type of vessel. Following the conference, there will be guided tours of the hydrofoil \u201cFreccia dei Gerani,\u201d the last remaining RHS70 in the world, which was saved thanks to the dedication of the Museo Barca Lariana and is included in the musical tour.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3515,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-eventi":[],"class_list":["post-3514","eventi","type-eventi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museobarcalariana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventi\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museobarcalariana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museobarcalariana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventi"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museobarcalariana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museobarcalariana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-eventi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museobarcalariana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-eventi?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}