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  • If you want to understand the birth of espresso, if you want to understand really where it came from, then I think one particular work of Lian Eto Cappiello is a really great place to start.

  • He was an Italian born artist working in Paris from the early 19 hundreds until the end of the 19 thirties, and he's considered to be the father of modern post advertising.

  • He's famous for his work with Chins Are No Campari and others, but it's his work in 1922 for Victoria.

  • Do we know that I think is a particular interest?

  • Let me explain.

  • Theory Journal.

  • Espresso Patent goes back to 18 84.

  • On Belongs to Angelo Maury Ondo of Cheron.

  • He set out to solve an age old problem with coffee.

  • It takes a long time to brew a typically to brew faster.

  • You'd need to ground finer, but their water has a difficult time getting through the bed of coffee.

  • His innovation was to leverage steam pressure to press the water through the grounds to be able to brew a little quicker.

  • He never commercialized his patent, but it was built on later, first in 1903 by Luigi Bets Era and then later by desert area.

  • Pavone, both whose names live on in the world of espresso machines.

  • No batteries designed, introduced key innovations, and while he built a few machines, he didn't have the money to commercialize thumb.

  • But Pavone did have any board the patterns in 93 refined it further again on the two men would end up collaborating in 1906 at the Milan Fair.

  • They showcase their inventions to the world, introducing what they called cafe espresso.

  • It really was the perfect word, coffee expressed, pushed out from the machine.

  • But done so at speed.

  • This'd innovation really marked the beginning of the espresso machine industry.

  • Other manufacturers would quickly appear, including Pierre.

  • To raise you are Do we know who had come to commission Cap Yellows poster, which I think captures so much of early espresso?

  • There are two things that I think particularly interesting about the poster coming at the end of the age of steam, but it's absolutely leveraging the idea that steam equal speed.

  • The train really was the perfect visual metaphor.

  • This was coffee, all about speed coffee brewed so quickly.

  • Grab a cup from the side of a moving train.

  • This is why espresso in the early days succeeded.

  • It was all about speed.

  • Look again.

  • There's one more small detail on this poster that I think is worth noting.

  • What the machine is brewing is very different to what we would think off his ex president.

  • Today.

  • It's bring small caps of filter coffee, something that all espresso machine instead of the time.

  • This was not a new recipe.

  • This was not a new type of drink.

  • This innovation was about small cups of filter coffee at Speed X.

  • Persons look feel, and recipe would really stay the same until the big innovation in 1948 mostly credited to a killing gadget.

  • That's the moment where pressure transformed espresso into being a whole new category in a whole new drink.

  • But that's a subject for a different video cap Yellows poster for victory, and we know it's so common that has become cliche, something you look at but don't really even see anymore.

If you want to understand the birth of espresso, if you want to understand really where it came from, then I think one particular work of Lian Eto Cappiello is a really great place to start.

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