The coffee maker called perculator, whats the story behind the word and who invented the perculator?
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Its called a percolator because the water percolates through the coffee grounds. I don't know who invented it, but I think percolators are more popular in Spain and Italy than they are in most other countries.
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On one website it had this tiny tidbit to say... James Mason invented the coffee percolator on December 26, 1865. On another page there is more information that makes it clearer... http://www.ideasatthepowerhouse.com.au/2001/3_online/whose_idea.htm "There are several claimants to the honour of inventing the coffree percolator but the one that seems to be most likely is Benjamin Thompson, 1753-1814 (also known as Count Rumford). Several sources credit him with the invention of the coffee percolator as well as the double boiler, range stove, pressure cooker and thermos bottle. I was not able to find a precise date relating to these. Thompson's experiments and inventions occurred in Bavaria in about the 1780s. (World of Invention: History's Most Significant Inventions and the Prople Behind Them, Gale, 1999) The first patent for an electric coffee percolator was taken out by James H. Nason for Franklin, Mass. U.S. in 1865"
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