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A French press, also known as a cafetière, cafetière à piston, caffettiera a stantuffo, press pot, coffee press, or coffee plunger, is a coffee brewing device, although it can also be used for other tasks. The earliest known device was patented in 1852 in France by Jacques-Victor Delforge and Henri-Otto Mayer.
Bodum was founded at the end of World War II, in 1944, [17] by Peter Bodum in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a family-owned business. [16] In the 1950s, Martin S.A., a company later acquired by Bodum, introduced the MELIOR coffee press, which became popular in the 1960s. [18]
Alfonso Bialetti first acquired his metal-working skills by working for a decade in the French aluminium industry. [1] By 1919, he had established his own metal and machine workshop in Crusinallo (in his native Piedmont) to make aluminium products: this was the foundation of the Bialetti company.
Manual drip coffee makers include the so-called French drip coffee pot (invented in 1795 by François Antoine Henri Descroizilles and manufactured by a metal-smith in Rouen, [17] [18] then popularized by bishop Jean-Baptiste de Belloy [17] [18] for why it became known as Cafetière du Belloy in Paris since 1800 [19] [20] to the point that it ...
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.
A vacuum coffee maker. Industrial design-classic by Abram Games. A vacuum coffee maker brews coffee using two chambers where vapor pressure and gravity produce coffee.This type of coffee maker is also known as vac pot, siphon or syphon coffee maker, and was invented by Loeff of Berlin in the 1830s.
A manual piston espresso machine made by Elektra. The piston-driven, or lever-driven, machine was developed in Italy in 1945 by Achille Gaggia, founder of espresso machine manufacturer Gaggia. The design generically uses a lever, pumped by the operator, to pressurize hot water and send it through the coffee grounds.
This Melitta teapot was the model for the Utah teapot 3D rendering, a ubiquitous object in early computer graphics research. In 1908, Melitta Bentz, a 35-year-old woman from Dresden, Germany, invented the first coffee filter, receiving a patent registration for her "Filter Top Device lined with Filter Paper" from the Patent Office in Berlin on 8 July.