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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 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 ]
It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
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 ...
Luigi Bezzera (born in the 19th century; died in the 20th century) was an Italian mechanic and innovator. [1] He is the inventor of the first removable portafilter espresso machine, while Angelo Moriondo holds the first recorded patent for the espresso machine, he hired a mechanic in Milan to build it.
Peet is also credited with mentoring the founders of Starbucks, among other major coffee entrepreneurs. Now the world's most ubiquitous coffee brand, Starbucks started with a single Seattle ...
A Melitta coffee filter. Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz (née Amalie Auguste Melitta Liebscher), best known as Melitta Bentz (January 31, 1873 – June 29, 1950), was a German inventor and entrepreneur known for revolutionizing the process of coffee brewing with her innovation of the coffee filter.
Nestlé Nespresso S.A., trading as Nespresso, is an operating unit of the Nestlé Group, based in Vevey, Switzerland. [4] Nespresso machines brew espresso and coffee from coffee capsules (or pods in machines for home or professional use [5]), a type of pre-apportioned single-use container, or reusable capsules (pods), of ground coffee beans, sometimes with added flavorings.