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Coffee Pots That Are Really Eye Openers

Coffee pots are part of almost every home in America, in one form or another. We have metal pots, china pots, silver pots, and coffee pots that won't fit on your dining table.

Coffee enjoys a long reputation as an eye opener, and out of that love affair with the coffee bean's product, was born the highway sign for weary travelers and truck drivers- giant coffee pots outside restaurants and burger bars.

Giant coffee pots were suspended outside establishments as a sign that help was just a short drive away. The oldest one in America, although it was not outside an eatery, is found in Old Salem, N.C.; where it graced the exterior of a silversmith's shop in the 1860s. His pot is some 12' high.

If you like your coffee pots a little fancier, there's the Swedish coffee pot in Stanton, Iowa, painted with decorative flowers. The 40,000 gallon capacity pot, is actually a water tower, in the hometown of the actress who played the original Mrs. Olsen, spokeswoman for the joys of Folger's coffee in the late 60s and early 70s.

Genuine, java-brewing percolators were not invented until 1865 by one James Mason, although a rudimentary model had made a brief appearance about sixty years before. That was still some 40 years after the advent of the espresso machine. Improvements followed hot on the heels of this wonder, and in 1908, Melitta Benz invented the paper filter for your coffee pots…out of her son's blotting paper.

Today, coffee pots come in a dizzying array of automatic wonders. The once popular drip coffee makers have given way to percolators, and for a certain sector of the population, espresso and cappuccino machines. But if you're lucky, you can still find the plain old metal pot hung over a campfire by cowboys in the Old West. Barring that, it's a safe bet that a yard sale or auction will yield up one of those two cup, perc it on the stove, coffee pots.

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