Gedenkstein Melitta Bentz in Dresden, Germany

Melitta Bentz liked to drink coffee. But at the beginning of the 20th century, coffee was not prepared as it is today. When enjoying coffee, the coffee grounds in her mouth and the somewhat bitter aftertaste were annoying. Melitta couldn't come to terms with that. So she kept trying different things until she finally got the right idea. She used a hammer and nail to poke a few holes in a tin pot, took the blotting paper from her sons' notebooks, cut it, and placed it in the punctured pot. Then she filled it with ground coffee and poured boiling water over it. Lo and behold, the coffee was perf

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