Augusto Monaco

Image:Monaco-trossi-laereo-senza-ali 4.jpg|thumb|Augusto Monaco with the 1935 Trossi-Monaco. Behind wheel is Carlo Felice Trossi.
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.