Notice GAGGIA Evolution Espresso

« chille Gaggia, who on September 5th 1938 filed patent no. 365726, with which the modern coffee machine may be said to have been born. The ingenious intuition was to apply steam pressure to ground coffee so that water forced through the coffee extracted all its flavours and aromas, creating the rich foam – ‘crema’. In 1948 Achille Gaggia filed the patent that changed the way espresso was made. Achille must have been very persistent. He incorporated a spring into a lever-operated piston. The spring provided the pressure and it was this pressure that forced the water through the coffee in such a short time - fifteen seconds for a short black coffee. On the 20th June 1947, he lodged his second patent for a new boiler and on the 8th August 1947, lodged his patent for the lever group. There are stories that , before the war , Giovanni Achille Gaggia, a bar owner, born in 1895 in Milan , was experimenting with screw-type pistons to make coffee and that after the war he tried the lever piston and it worked. Another story goes that Gaggia actually possessed a model of the screw piston and could show it to people . Yet a third story says that Rosetta Scorza , the wife of an inventor , came to Gaggia with an idea for a new machine. The idea was a little primitive and when the inventor died , his wife sold it to Gaggia for a thousand Lira (a large sum of money in those days ). Gaggia made some improvements and the true espresso machine as we know it was invented . The facts almost match these stories …3 The journey has lasted more than a half-century in which the name ‘Gaggia’ has become synonymous throughout the world with tradition and quality. Gaggia narrates these 60 years across its products which development follows the evolution of technology and Italian design. Gaggia commenced production of professional coffee machines, completely hand made. These machines with its clean design were soon adopted by several large and prominent Italian, English and American bars. Two Gaggia’s machines, America and Ondolux became icons of the 50’s life-style. La dolce vita starts from tasting a real Italian Espresso in the famous bar Motta in Milan or in some coffee-shop of Via Veneto in Rome. In 1952 Gaggia gave homeusers the pleasure of espresso by introducing the "GILDA". It may be considered the first attempt at creating a home espresso machine, and the first step towards industrial-scale production of non-professional coffee machines. In 1977 GAGGIA went into industrial production of home espresso machines with the debut of BABY GAGGIA, which was soon to become the best-selling machine and a status symbol. Even today when one speaks of home espresso machines, the name BABYGAGGIA evokes the history of the coffee maker market and the absolute quality of products - 100% "made in Italy". Gaggia coffee machines have evolved over the decades going from the traditional lever controlling a pressure-generating piston to a fully automated mechanism which, at the touch of a button, activates the mechanism regulating the grinding, dosing and brewing of delicious espresso coffee. All this is to be found in the "Gaggia Titanium" range, super automatic machines ideally embodying the technological perfection resulting of years of experience. Gaggia is a real protagonist of the coffee machines market, able to satisfy any desire for coffee with its complete range: from the traditional coffee machines and fully automatic ones to the machi... »