Tiberius Cavallo (30.03.1749-21.12.1809) was a physicist. He was born in Naples. In 1771 he moved
to England. His work concerned electricity, magnetism and molecular physics. He was the author of “A Complete Treatise on Electricity in Theory and Practice” (1777), which ran to three editions. He designed a micrometer and an electrometer, improved the air pump, built (1800) a refrigerating machine and studied the properties of air and of liquids.
A Fellow of the Royal Society (1779) and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Naples.