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a humble vessel that secretly monitored the dawn of the internet age.
means A container, usually with a spout and handle, used for brewing and serving coffee.
from The vessel takes its name from "coffee," which English borrowed in the late 16th or early 17th century from Dutch "koffie" and Italian "caffè," themselves from Turkish "kahve," which came from Arabic "qahwa" — a word that may once have meant something like wine before it attached itself to the dark bean. "Pot" is a much older, homely Germanic word for a rounded vessel. As for the essence's wink: the famous Trojan Room coffee pot at Cambridge really was watched over a network in the early 1990s, giving the world its first webcam — so this humble word did, in a small way, witness the dawn of the internet.
- first webcam
- Cambridge built one in 1991 to watch a coffee pot
- percolator boom
- top US gift in 1865, brewing started cold
- turkish origin
- the cezve dates back to 16th-century Ottoman coffeehouses
- diner code
- orange handles long signaled decaf to waitstaff
- chemex fame
- its 1941 glass design lives in MoMA's collection
moka pot — italian stovetop brewer invented by alfonso bialetti in 1933, creates strong coffee by forcing steam through ground beans
chemex — hourglass-shaped glass brewer patented by peter schlumbohm in 1941, uses special filters and takes 4-5 minutes per brew
turkish cezve — small copper or brass pot used across middle east and turkey for centuries, boils finely ground coffee with cardamom and water together