Read Melitta Bentz’s biography and complete the sentence.
Melitta Bentz (1873-1950)
Melitta Bentz was a German housewife who invented a coffee filter system in 1908 and founded a business that still exists today. (Photo: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Have you ever wondered who to thank when you’re getting your coffeemaker ready for your first cup of the day? Coffee beans have been made into beverages since the eleventh century, but a German housewife named Melitta Bentz updated brewing for the modern world. At the turn of the 20th century, the usual method was to tie up the coffee grounds in a small cloth bag and place the bag into a pot of boiling water; the result was a bitter, gritty drink. Bentz came up with a new method. She put a piece of thick, absorbent paper into a brass pot with a few holes punched in it and poured the coffee through this two-part contraption, which trapped the grounds and allowed the filtered liquid to seep through and drip into a waiting cup. She received a patent for her coffee filter system in 1908 and founded a business that still exists today. Available at < https://www.biography.com/news/famous-women-inventors-biography> Access on 4 April, 2018.
At the turn of the 20th century, a German housewife called Melitta Bentz created