tus
for distilling coffee.

1804[L]--The first cargo of coffee--and other East Indian
produce--from Mocha, to be shipped in an American bottom, reaches
Salem, Mass.

1806--James Henckel is granted a patent in England on a coffee
dryer, "an invention communicated to him by a certain foreigner."

1806--The first French patent on an improved French drip coffee pot
for making coffee by filtration, without boiling, is granted to
Hadrot.

1806--The coffee percolator (really an improved French drip coffee
pot) is invented by Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), an
expatriated American scientist, in Paris.

1809--The first importation of Brazil coffee by the United States
arrives at Salem, Mass.

1809--Coffee becomes an article of commerce in Brazil.

1811--Walter Rochfort, a London grocer and tea dealer, obtains a
patent in London on a compressed coffee tablet.

1812--Coffee in England is roasted in an iron pan or hollow
cylinder made of sheet iron; and then is pounded in a mortar, or
ground in a hand-mill.

1812--Anthony Schick is granted an English patent on a method, or
process, for roasting coffee, for which specifications were never
enrolled.

1812--Coffee is roasted in Italy in a glass flask with a loose
cork, held over a clear fire of burning coals and continually
agitated.

1812--The import duty, on coffee in the United States is increased
to ten cents a pound as a war-revenue measure.

1813--A United States patent is granted Alexander Duncan Moore, New
Haven, Conn., on a mill for grinding and pounding coffee.

1814--A war-time fever of speculation in tea and coffee causes the
citizens of Philadelphia to form a non-consumption association,
each member pledging himself not to pay more than twenty-five cents
a pound for coffee, and not to use tea unless it is already in the
country.

1816--The import duty on coffee in the United States is reduced to
five cents a pound.

1817[L]--The coffee biggin (said to have been invented by a man
named Biggin) comes into common use in England.

1818--The Havre coffee market for spot coffee and to arrive is
established.

1819--Morize, a Paris tinsmith, invents a double drip reversible
coffee pot.

1819--Laurens is granted a French patent on the or