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He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [ 5 ] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World .
Edmund Angel Abel, Jr. (May 12, 1921 – April 21, 2014) was an American engineer and inventor who designed and patented the heating element for Mr. Coffee, one of the first automatic drip coffee makers to be introduced to the American consumer market.
A pre-World War I advertisement introduced G Washington's Coffee to the public. Advert from The New York Times, February 23, 1914. George Constant Louis Washington (May 20, 1871 – March 29, 1946) was a Belgian-British inventor and businessman.
A stove-top, Italian style coffee maker A 2016-model electric coffeemaker. A coffeemaker, coffee maker or coffee machine is a cooking appliance used to brew coffee.While there are many different types of coffeemakers, the two most common brewing principles use gravity or pressure to move hot water through coffee grounds.
Peter Schlumbohm (10 July 1896 – 1962) was a German inventor, best known for creating the Chemex Coffeemaker. In a eulogy for Schlumbohm shortly after his death in 1962, the notable design author Ralph Caplan described the typical Schlumbohm invention as “a synthesis of logic and madness”. Caplan, like hundreds of thousands of Americans ...
Angelo Moriondo (27 August 1869 – 31 May 1914) was an Italian inventor, who is usually credited with patenting the earliest known espresso machine, in 1884. [1] His machine used a combination of steam and boiling water to efficiently brew coffee .
The Moka Express, which was comparatively small, cheap, and easy to use, made it feasible for many more people to brew espresso at home. Over the rest of the 20th century, it gradually displaced other home coffee makers invented in the late 19th century, such as the Napoletana and the Milanese. [clarification needed] [1]
An indication of the approach of Neapolitans to coffee as a social drink, is the practice of the suspended coffee (the act of paying in advance for a coffee to be consumed by the next customer) invented there and defined by the Neapolitan philosopher and writer Luciano De Crescenzo a coffee "given by an individual to mankind".