Comic about the woman who invented the coffee filter

David Pescovitz 7:30 am Wed Jul 15, 2015

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Over at Backchannel, comic artist Andy Warner's illustrated the story of Melitta Bentz, a German housewife who in 1908 invented the coffee filter.

It's part of a series of "Innovation Comics" that I was excited to commission Andy to create as part of an Intel sponsorship on Medium.

"How One German Mom Single-handedly Changed the Way We Drink Coffee"

And don't miss the other Innovation Comics:

"How A Man and His Dog Invented Velcro!"

"How a Naval Engineer Turned a Torsion Spring into the Slinky"

"How a Solution Without a Problem Became the Post-it Note"

"The Untold Story Behind the Invention of the Microprocessor"

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