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Angelo Moriondo’s Italian patent, which was registered in 1884 (No. 33/256), is notable. Ian Bersten,whose history of coffee brewers is cited below, claims to have been the first to discover Moriondo’spatent. Bersten describes the device as “… almost certainly the first Italian bar machine thatcontrolled the supply of steam and water separately through the coffee” and Moriondo as “... certainlyone of the earliest discoverers of the espresso machine, if not the earliest.” Unlike true espressomachines, it was a bulk brewer, and did not brew coffee “expressly” for the individual customer.

17 years later, in 1901, Milanese Luigi Bezzera came up with a number of improvements to theespresso coffee machine. He patented a number of these, the first of which was applied for on the19th of December 1901. It was titled “Innovations in the machinery to prepare and immediately servecoffee beverage” (Patent No. 153/94, 61707, granted on the 5th of June 1902).

The popularity of espresso developed in various ways; a detailed discussion of the spread ofespresso is given in (Morris 2007), which is a source of various statements below.

In Italy, the rise of espresso consumption was associated with urbanization, espresso bars providinga place for socialization. Further, coffee prices were controlled by local authorities, provided thecoffee was consumed standing up, encouraging the "stand at a bar" culture.