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• 1817
Coffee cultivation is introduced into Hawaii from Rio
de Janeiro. Don Francisco de Paula Marin with the
approval of King Kamehameha planted the first coffee
seeds in Hawaii in 1817. The plantings were a failure
but in 1825, the first successful coffee orchard was
established. Kona coffee soon to come! Aloha!
• 1818
Coffee is really starting to perk along... Laurens, a Parisian metal-
smith invents the first coffee percolator.
• 1822
Just as George Stephenson was building the first steam-powered locomotive named
locomotion, that would change the way we travel, kick off the industrial age and change
the world forever, something even better and more important was starting to hisssssss...
The world's first espresso machine steams ahead in France. Louis Bernard Rabaut is
credited with developing a brewing machine that used steam to force hot water through
the coffee grounds, creating the first early version of what we know as an Espresso!
• 1860
After deciding against heading to the gold-filled streams in the Sierras and participating in
California's gold rush, James Folger stayed in wild San Francisco, where its Barbary Coast
was filled with saloons and scantily-
clad women in bordellos, who kept men up all night long. Easy choice for James, don't you think, hmm, wading in cold-streams looking for nuggets or mining hot women and their golden nuggets?
He soon makes his own golden fortune by founding the J.A. Folger Coffee Company. He's a pioneer in west coast coffee and helps create the California caffeine rush to keep those prospectors digging and those other hung-over newcomers building the great state that it was soon to become.
was filled with saloons and scantily-clad women in bordellos, who kept men up all night long. Easy choice for James, don't you think, hmm, wading in cold-streams looking for nuggets or mining hot women and their golden nuggets?
He soon makes his own golden fortune by founding the J.A. Folger Coffee Company. He's a pioneer in west coast coffee and helps create the California caffeine rush to keep those prospectors digging and those other hung-over newcomers building the great state that it was soon to become.
• 1864
Jabez Burns of New York, was granted
a United States patent on the original
Burns coffee roaster, the first machine
which did not have to be moved away
from the fire for discharging roasted
coffee, and one that marked a major
advance for coffee roasting. He was the
Thomas Edison of roasting and the
grandfather of all roasting machines
we know today!
• 1865
James H. Nason patents the first coffee percolator in the United Sates. Whose idea was it
anyways? Something smells bitter here. Well, where there is a will, there is an american
way.
• 1871
John Arbuckle with the aid of a draftsman and
machinist
invented a machine that filled, weighed,
sealed and
labeled coffee in paper packages. From
his factory
in New York, the "Arbuckle Ariosa"
became the first
mass produced coffee sold all
over the country.
Eventually Arbuckle became
the largest importer of
coffee in the world and
soon became the largest
ship owner in America
because every merchant
ship engaged in the South American coffee trade
was his. Sadly, the days of small millers and coffee
roasters are soon coming to an end for this Roasters' era.
• 1886
Joel Cheek names his new coffee blend "Maxwell House" after the ritzy
hotel that serves it in Nashville, Tennessee. Seven presidents stayed at
the Maxwell House Hotel, including
Theodore Roosevelt, whose 1907 comment
that this delightful coffee was "Good to the
Last Drop" launched the advertising slogan
that was used to promote the nation's first-
blended coffee.
Click here to view the vintage advertisement.
the Maxwell House Hotel, including
Theodore Roosevelt, whose 1907 comment
that this delightful coffee was "Good to the
Last Drop" launched the advertising slogan
that was used to promote the nation's first-
blended coffee.
Click here to view the vintage advertisement.
