Torcuato di tella ambassador biography
Ambassador to the United States, Guido di Tella.
Important Argentinian sociologist author of numerous books who became later secretary of culture in the national government and also ambassador....
Torcuato di Tella
Argentine industrialist and philanthropist
Torcuato di Tella ( ) was an Argentine industrialist and philanthropist.
Life and times
Torcuato di Tella was born in Capracotta, Italy, in He arrived in Argentina at age 13 and settled in Buenos Aires.[1] A widespread, bakery workers' strike prompted di Tella to develop a bread making machine, which he sold to a number of the city's panaderías as both a labor-saving device and a hedge against future strikes.
The venture gave birth to Sección Industrial Amasadoras Mecánicas ("Bread Making Machine Industries"), or, simply, SIAM.[2]
Di Tella enlisted in the Italian Army during World War I; upon his return, he enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires, earning a degree in hard sciences in The country's leading bread and pasta machine maker by the s, di Tella's friendship with Enrique Mosconi, the Director of the newly established State oil concern YPF, helped result in a cont