the commercial roaster was little used in France. Since
then, the industry has developed, but without displacing the smaller
roaster for family use. Ball roasters are popular with shop-keepers,
especially the variety manufactured by the Etablissements Lauzaune at
Paris, and known as Aromatic, being equipped with electric motors. This
firm builds also a larger machine known as Moderne.

Other makes of roasters that have attained prominence in France are the
Lambert, equipped with a steam condenser; Van den Brouck's, having the
roasting cylinder lined with wire gauze; and Resson's machine for
wholesale plants.

The French led off with glass-cylinder roasters for home use in the
early seventies. They are still popular. One of the developments of the
last decade was known as the Bijou, and was operated by clock work. A
similar automatic machine, made of glass, was manufactured and sold in
New York in 1908 under the name of the Home roaster. As late as 1914, an
American inventor produced a home roaster for use in a stove hole. This
device had a stirrer in the cover to be rotated by hand. A similar
device was sold in 1917 under the name Savo. Home roasting, however, has
become a lost art in America.

[Illustration: LAMBERT'S VICTORY GAS MACHINE]

In 1897, Joseph Lambert, of Vermont, began the manufacture and sale in
Battle Creek, Mich., of the Lambert self-contained coffee roaster
without the brick setting then required for coffee-roasting machines. In
1900, he was joined by A.P. Grohens. In 1901, the Lambert Food and
Machinery Co. was organized. In 1904, the company was reorganized. Since
then, many improvements have been made under Mr. Grohens' direction. The
Lambert gas roaster, one of the first machines employing gas as fuel for
indirect roasting, dates back to 1901, as previously mentioned. The
Economic roaster is Mr. Grohens' latest development for coal or coke
fuel. It is a compact self-contained equipment operating in connection
with a new-type rotary cooler. He has also recently (1922) brought out a
gas-fired, electrically operated 600-pound Victory roaster and a
fifty-pound miniature coffee-roasting plant designed for retail stores.

In 1897, the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pennsylvania was the first
regularly to employ electric motors for driving commercial coffee mills
by means of belt-and-pulley attachments.

In 1898, the Hobart Manufacturing Co., of Troy, Ohio, introduced to the
trade another early cof