The invention of bread maker

Long considered a twentieth-century marvel, the automatic bread-making machine debuted at the end of the nineteenth century.

Created by a Massachusetts inventor named Joseph Lee (1849-1905), the prototype of the modern bread maker mixed and kneaded ingredients with commendable speed.

Joseph Lee (1849-1905)

In 1895, he patented the idea for a machine that would grind stale, otherwise unusable bread into crumbs to be used in cooking. After that he invented a bread-making machine that made bread faster than six people could and more cheaply. This bread-making machine eliminated the need for kneading the dough by hand.

Both machines are the basis for thousands of similar machines used around the world today.

After the end of World War II in 1945, Japan suffered a severe food shortage. The American occupying forces under General Douglas MacArthur reintroduced wheat bread to feed schoolchildren, and this time the Japanese loved it.

In the 1970s, as Japan was experiencing an economic boom, young Japanese were finding a breakfast of bacon and eggs with orange juice and bread or rolls to be more convenient than fish and a bowl of rice with pickled vegetables. Unfortunately for a Japanese housewife, her family wanted very fresh bread.

An electrical engineer, Shin Ojima, invented the programmable bread machine to end this daily inconvenience. Although he had difficulty finding a manufacturer, at last in 1987 the first automatic bread machines were introduced in Japan.

In 1988, Zoji Corporation marketed the Home Baker, an all-in-one bread-making appliance that proofs, mixes, kneads, rises, shapes and bakes the bread dough within hours.
The invention of bread maker

The invention of popcorn machine by Charles Cretors

The original method used to popcorn was to hold and shake a wire basket filled with raw corn kernels over an open flame or fire.

Charles Cretors was the first of Chicago to develop a steam-driven machine in 1885 to popcorn in such volume that it could be sold from street wagons propelled first by hand, then by horse and finally by gasoline motor.

Creator got a license to operate his machine on the street and the rest was history. The Cretors machine automatically popped corn in a mixture of one-third clarified butter and two-third lard and salt. He was the first to use oil. The result was a machine that popped corn in its own seasoning – uniformity for the first time.

A gasoline fueled wet (oil) popping machine which was also had a small compartment for roasting peanuts. It was patented in 1893 and shown at the Columbian Exposition that year.

These carts were quickly seen on every street following the hungry crowds.

The machine could roast 12 pounds of peanuts, 20 pounds of coffee, popcorn and bake chestnuts as well.
The invention of popcorn machine by Charles Cretors

The invention of sewing machine

Sewing machines are mechanical machines that used for stitching clothes, leather and other fabrics.

The earliest known attempt to invent a sewing machine was made in London in 1790 by Thomas Saint who designed a machine for sewing leather.

In 1818 an American churchman, John Adams, and his partner John Knowles, produces a crude sewing device.

The needle with a hook point, first introduced by Thimonnier, a Frenchmen in 1830, for the purpose of forming the chain-stich, has given rise to the most varied construction of tambour-stitch machine.

It had similarities to a modern machine, with an overhanging arm to carry the straight vertical needle, and a simple form of presser foot held the horizontally supported fabric in position, ready for stitching.

In 1842 the first American patent was issued, to John Greenough, for an invention actually called a ‘sewing machine’.

In 1873 Isaac M. Singer established his sewing machine factory on Newark bay. The factory was built on a 32 acre plot and once had a workforce of six thousand.

The I.M. Singer & Co. was the first American multinational company.
The invention of sewing machine

Invention of espresso machine

The first prototype of an espresso machine (made in Italy) was unveiled in the early 1800’s. It was an Italian named Luigi Bezzera who invented the espresso machine. He built a machine that could force water through a series of filters at high pressure. It turned out that not only did it make coffee faster, it also made coffee better.

He filed for a patent in 1901. In 1903, Desidrio Pavoni purchased the patent from Luigi Bezerra and the Pavoni Company started developing coffee machines in 1905 which were based on Luigi’s patent.

The machines produced by the company came to be known as the ‘La Savona’ and became famous immensely.

In 1915, Corning Glass Work’s introduced a coffee maker made from Pyrex. This ovenproof glass was marketed under the name ‘Silex’.

The first espresso machine installed in an American restaurant was at Regio’s, in New York City in 1927. 

The automatic espresso maker began its journey in the 1930’s. One of the first electric coffee machines was made by Willy Brandl.

The most innovative invention of the electric coffee maker was the switch that turned it off after the right time.

In 1933, Dr Ernest Illy invented the first automatic espresso coffee machine. Drawing its inspiration from an Italian invention, the Espresso machine, Nestlé launched Nespresso in 1986.
Invention of espresso machine