# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arturo-caprotti
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:22:24.048Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arturo-caprotti"
name: "Arturo Caprotti"
slug: "arturo-caprotti"
description: "Arturo Caprotti 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."
tagline: "Italian engineer and architect (1881–1938)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Moscazzano3_bearbeitet.jpg/330px-Moscazzano3_bearbeitet.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1881-03-22"
deathDate: "1938-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.96
  momentum:             0.5982905982905983
  historical:           4.604464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ارتورو كاپروتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Caprotti"
    title: "Arturo Caprotti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Caprotti"
    title: "Arturo Caprotti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Caprotti"
    title: "Arturo Caprotti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Caprotti"
    title: "Arturo Caprotti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715168"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump