Crushing the raw beans and hulls, and steeping them in water, was a later improvement. The history of coffee maker can be traced back to the Turks who are known to have brewed great coffee as early as 575 AD.
Coffee gained popularity among the regular people of England in the early 1700s. Bull’s roasting machine was patented in England in 1704, marking the first use of coal for commercial coffee roasting.
The M. Biggin pot was invented in 1763 by a Parisian tinsmith named Donmartin, first name unknown. By the 1780s, they were common in wealthy Parisian homes. It came into common use in England for making coffee about 1817. It was simply a squat earthenware pot with an upper, movable, strainer part made of tin, after the French drip pot pattern.
The coffee biggin with which Americans are most familiar is a pot containing a flannel bag or a cylindrical wire strainer to hold the ground coffee through which the boiling water is poured.
A coffee percolator was invented in Paris about 1806 by Benjamin Thompson, F.R.S., an American-British scientist, philanthropist, and administrator. He was known as Count Rumford, a title bestowed on him by the Pope.
In United States, the first patent for a coffee percolator was filed by American James Nason in 1865. This was later improved to a stove top percolator by Hanson Goodrich in 1869.
Coffee percolator
