Individual Assignment
History of
the coffee
Section:2
Development of coffee :
The commercial development of coffee started in
the 1700’s when a French captain traveled the Atlantic to the Caribbean Island
of Martinique. He had 19 million trees grown there within 50 years. Then coffee
became a famous drink nationally in the United States. The Italians looked to popularize
coffee in 1822 by inventing a coffee machine called the espresso maker in
France. Now you can find 200,000 espresso machines in Italy. While in France
Dr. Ernest Illy discovered an automatic machine for preparing espresso in 1933.
The machines developed nowadays are by Achilles Gaggia, an Italian man from
1946 to now. He expanded it as inventing “a high pressure espresso machine by
using a spring powered lever system. The first pump driven espresso machine was
produced in 1960 by the Faema company”( Bellis,n.d.).
The development of the coffee machine did not
stop at that point but it continued to go through a number inventions. The
first coffee filter came from Germany by Melitta Bentz, a housewife. She looked
for a way to make a clear coffee without any over brewing which caused
bitterness. She found that her son used a blotter paper at school which helped
her to achieve her goal cutting it in circle and shaping it in the cup.
As a result, her invention was recorded and patented
in 1908 for the coffee filter machine and filter paper. After that Melitta and
her husband participated in a fair at Leipziger in Germany where they sold 1200
coffee filters ( Bellis,n.d.).
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