New York City immigrant Italo Marchiony (born Italo Marcioni) was a vendor who patented a machine to make pastry ice cream cones on December 13, 1903. He had begun selling the cones in 1896.
Ernest Hamwi, a Syrian salesman of zalabis (waffles) created another version at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, when he used waffle cones to serve as containers for another vendor's ice cream.
There is little biographical information available about Italo Marchiony (his own Angliciized version of his Italian birth name Marcioni). He emigrated to the US in the late 1800's and was by 1896 was a vendor in Hoboken, NY. He designed a way to automate the production of baked pastry (batter-formed) cones for ice cream, and patented his baking machine in 1903.
Italo Marchiony is best known for his invention of the ice cream cone in the early 1900s. However, specific details about his family, including his spouse and children, are not widely documented. Marchiony was born in Italy and later immigrated to the United States, where he established his career. Information about his personal life remains limited, focusing primarily on his contributions to food innovation.
There is a debate on who invented the cone .Marchiony is given credit for it a similar creation was made at the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi .
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