Editing Coffee percolator (section)

==Inventor==
The first modern percolator incorporating the rising of boiling water through a tube to form a continuous cycle and capable of being heated on a kitchen stove was invented in 1819 by the [[Paris|Parisian]] tinsmith Joseph-Henry-Marie Laurens.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pootoogoo.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/elevator-to-espresso-episode-3/ |title=Elevator to espresso (Episode 3) |last=pootoogoo |date=2015-03-05 |website=The black blob spot |access-date=2017-07-02}}</ref> Its principle was then often copied and modified.

The first [[United States patent law|US patent]] for a coffee percolator was issued to James Nason of [[Franklin, Massachusetts]], in 1865, {{US patent|51741}}. This mechanism did not use the conventional percolation method as described above.   

An [[Illinois]] farmer named Hanson Goodrich patented the modern U.S. stove-top percolator as it is known today, and he was granted {{US patent|408707}} on 13 August 1889. It had the key elements of a conventional percolator: the broad base for boiling, the upflow central tube and a perforated basket hanging on it. Goodrich's design could transform any standard coffee pot of the day into a stove-top percolator. Subsequent patents have added very little.

Electric percolators have been in production since at least the first decade of the 20th century with [[General Electric]] publishing a pamphlet titled "Coffee Making By Electricity" in 1905. Automatic percolators have been available since the 1940s or earlier.