Tito Livio Burattini

Tito Livio Burattini (1617–1681) was a Venetian inventor and scientist born in Agordo, near Belluno, who spent his career in Poland and Lithuania. In 1641 he was summoned to Warsaw by King Ladislaus IV.

In 1647 he built a model aircraft called the flying dragon, said to have lifted a cat in 1648 but never a man. His 1675 treatise Universal Measure first applied the name metre to a unit of length. He died in Kraków.