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“