9 Innovations That Changed Coffee Culture (PHOTOS)

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

 

“Frustrated with grinds in her coffee, ingenious German housewife Melitta Bentz used her son’s school blotting paper to create the first-ever coffee filter in 1908.”

Hence the “Melitta” filter and cone. The above is number seven of the nine innovations, but there actually appears to be ten listed in total.

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