Who Invented the Coffee Filter?

One day in the early 1900s, Melita Bentz ripped a piece of blotting paper from her son’s school notebook and stuck it into an old tin pot in which she had punched some holes. She added ground coffee and poured hot water over it. The beverage dripped through the paper, straight into the cup. In June 1908, The Imperial Patent Office in Berlin granted Bentz the patent for the paper filter, and she and her husband were soon in business. 

From Melita Bentz’s Overlooked obituary in the New York Times by Claire Moses 

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