Augusto Monaco

Augusto Camillo Pietro Monaco was an Italian engineer, best known for his racing cars from the early 1930s.
Monaco was born in Buenos Aires, where he earned a degree in engineering before relocating to Turin in the early 1920s, where he made his automobile engineering contributions:

1927 Monaco-Baudo with Antonio Baudo, a single-cylinder 500 cm³ side-valved engine;
1932 Nardi-Monaco with Enrico Nardi, a front-wheeled twin-cylinder JAP engine nicknamed Chichibio, and winning several hillclimbs;
1935 Trossi-Monaco with Carlo Felice Trossi, a 16-cylinder race car, uncompetitive due to an unsuitable 75/25 weight distribution.

Since then he declined an offer to join Fiat, and among several engineering projects, was involved in developing synthetic diamonds, a Swiss-patented invention. Augusto Monaco moved to Livorno in the early 1960s, where he worked on hydraulic systems until his retirement. He died in Livorno, 1997.