STL+Emma

. . Inventions Alphabet Key **
 * I have been learning lots about inventions. I have discovered that inventions are really fun.


 * ** A  ** ||   Air conditioning   || **  N  ** ||   Nintendo   ||
 * ** B  ** ||   Barbeque   || **  O  ** ||   Outboard motor   ||
 * ** C  ** ||   Computer   || **  P  ** ||   Parachutes   ||
 * ** D  ** ||   Digital camera   || **  Q  ** ||   Quartz watch   ||
 * ** E  ** ||   Elevator   || **  R  ** ||   Radio   ||
 * ** F  ** ||   Film   || **  S  ** ||   Sailboards   ||
 * ** G  ** ||   Guitar   || **  T  ** ||   Telephone   ||
 * ** H  ** ||   Helicopter   || **  U  ** ||   Umbrella   ||
 * ** I  ** ||   Internet   || **  V  ** ||   Vacuum cleaner   ||
 * ** J  ** ||   Jet aircraft   || **  W  ** ||   Walkie talkie   ||
 * ** K  ** ||   Keyboard   || **  X  ** ||   X-Rays   ||
 * ** L  ** ||   Letterbox   || **  Y  ** ||   Youtube   ||
 * ** M  ** ||   Matches   || **  Z  ** ||   Zipper   ||

** Creative Writing Skills By Emma Aldridge ** ** Inventor: Melitta Bentz (A German housewife) ** I use to make coffee the same way other people did. I would wrap the ground beans in a bag. Then I would pop the bag into a pot of water and boil it, with a bitter-tasting liquid with loose coffee grounds. But then there had to be a better way to make nicer coffee, so one day I cut a circle in some blotting paper, found a brass pot, poked small holes in the bottom and placed it inside.
 * Invention: Drip coffee maker **
 * 1. How Did You Make It? **

The materials that I used were blotting paper, a brass pot, but then I used the help of a tinsmith to make coffee pots with dozens of small holes in the bottom.
 * 2. What Materials Did You Use? **

I thought that there had to be a faster way to make better-tasting coffee.
 * 3. Why Did You See A Need For This Invention? **

People had been drinking coffee since A.D. 800 but it took until 1908 for me to come up with a better way to make it. A year later with the help of my husband and a tinsmith the melitta coffeemaker was produced and sold at the local trade show.
 * 4. How Long Did It Take You To Make? **