Miguel Atilio Marziotta begins in 1918, in the town of Patricios, 9 de Julio Party, becoming one of the pioneers of the Argentine industry This, granted to the city of Bragado, the privilege of manufacturing the first combine harvester in the province of Buenos Aires.
Marziotta factory[]
The factory had a total of 20 workers, producing more than 30 units, which from the city of Bragado went out to collect the efforts of farmers throughout the area. These machines were shown at rural exhibitions in all the neighboring towns and even in Palermo. The establishment manufactured harvesters, grinders, mixers and chimangos.
History[]
Miguel Marziotta died in 1988, previously received parchments in recognition of his outstanding and imperious work, as well as in progress of the national industry. Born in Patricios, he made Bragado his adoptive homeland; he himself was an example of work and hope. And according to the digital portal Bragado Informa, dated September 2012: "Next Saturday, at 11 o'clock, will take place at the intersection of Pellegrini streets and Hnos. Islands of our city, the public act of imposition of the name of "Miguel Atilio Marziotta" to the west corner that make up those two arteries, organized by the Municipal Executive Department in compliance with the respective Ordinance sanctioned by the Deliberative Council that establishes it. The norm was based on "the rescue of the figure of Mr. Miguel Atilio Marziotta that has been carried out from different local instances, such as those who are devoted to historical research, as neighbors related to agricultural production." "The figure of Marziotta stands out not only among the pioneers of the mechanization of the Argentine countryside, having manufactured, in 1953, the first automotive harvester in the Province of Buenos Aires - as a new milestone, in the pursuit of that goal, after the of 1910: steam thresher by Juan Istillart; 1920: first national harvester for animal shooting of Juan and Emilio Senior and 1929: patenting of the first automotive harvester in the world by Antonio Rotania and the manufacture of this type of machinery by Antonio Druetta -, but as exemplary for the times for the fundamental values which represents: work, effort, service, vocation for progress", say the fundamentals. Add the Ordinance, approved at the initiative of the Block of Radical Councilors, through a project of Dr. Marita Gelitti, that the imposition of his name "to the corner of the site where he built his workshop, his factory and his own home in the The city of Bragado is both a well-deserved tribute to the one who was recognized by the Argentine Industrial Union, for his "stubborn work in favor of the national industry", and in a statement of support for the Bragadens industrialists who, in the midst of different contingencies, continue betting on production and provide sources of work to many citizens of the Party.