In 1771, the British granted a patent for a ‘coffee compound’ and in the late nineteenth century a Glasgow firm invented Camp Coffee, a liquid ‘essence’.
In the 1900 the Tokyo chemist Sartori Kato made a version of instant coffee. In 1901, he began introducing the American public to powdered coffee at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, new York.
In United States, the earliest experiments with and patent for, instant coffee date to the civil war. As an outgrowth of these experiments, a European immigrant named George Washington produced the first commercially viable instant coffee in the United States beginning in 1906.
While aiding Brazil in marketing a surplus of beans, Nestle, developed its instant coffee, Nescafe, which retained flavorful oils through a process of freeze drying. Nestle started marketing Nescafe in 1938 and quickly dominated the market.
After World War II, instant coffee became popular in America, prompting an increase in the growth of inferior robusta beans for the cheap blends used for soluble coffee.
History of instant coffee
