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First patent (16 May 1884) of the espresso coffee machine. Moriondo presented his invention at the General Expo of Turin in 1884, where it was awarded the bronze medal.The patent was awarded for a period of six years on 16 May 1884 under the title of "New steam machinery for the economic and instantaneous confection of coffee beverage, method ‘A. Moriondo’."
In 1906, the espresso machine was exhibited under the name Bezzera L. Caffè Espresso at the World's Fair in Milan. The term espresso for coffee prepared in this way was used for the first time on this occasion. [8] Pavoni soon promoted the machine as the "ideal" coffee machine and marketed it under the commercial name Ideale for La Pavoni. [7]
Satori Kato (June 1847 - ?) was a Japanese chemist. [1] Kato was initially thought to be the inventor of the first soluble instant coffee whilst working in Chicago, after filing a patent in 1901 and exhibiting the product at the Pan-American Exposition [2] until it was rediscovered that David Strang of Invercargill, New Zealand had invented the product twelve years earlier. [3]
In 1933 Illy founded illycaffè, [1] which invented the first automatic coffee machine that substituted pressurized water for steam. The Illetta became the predecessor of today's espresso machine . [ 2 ]
The first Bezzera and Pavoni espresso machines in 1906 took 45 seconds to make a cup of coffee, one at a time, expressly for you. [7] Modern espresso, using hot water under pressure, as pioneered by Gaggia in the 1940s, was originally called crema caffè (lit. ' cream coffee '), as seen on old Gaggia machines, due to the crema. [8]
Now the world's most ubiquitous coffee brand, Starbucks started with a single Seattle storefront in 1971 and was bought in 1987 by Howard Shultz, who nationalized the business. In large part ...
An espresso machine brews coffee by forcing pressurized water near boiling point through a "puck" of ground coffee and a filter in order to produce a thick, concentrated coffee called espresso. Multiple machine designs have been created to produce espresso. Several machines share some common elements, such as a grouphead and a portafilter. An ...
The new machine, which was patented by Edmund Abel, came to be called Mr. Coffee. [1] In addition to a less bitter flavor, Abel's heating element for Mr. Coffee could also brew coffee much faster than any, similar machines available at the time. [1] Mr. Coffee could brew one cup of coffee in just 30 seconds and ten cups in just five minutes. [1]