“Rumford’s patented coffeemaker” (March 28, 1814)

The Jane Austen Society of America has published an exhaustive article by Hugh Rowlinson on “The Contribution of Count Rumford to Domestic Life in Jane Austen’s Time” which includes a description and a picture of this machine as well as links to Rumford’s own writings.

"New Discoveries in Pneumatics". Humphry Davy (1778-1829) lecturing at the Royal Institution.

The inventor of the coffeemaker, Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, is the fellow with the aquiline nose at extreme right of this satirical cartoon by James Gillray.