Atomic (coffee machine)
The Atomic is a coffee percolator with a portafilter. The organic design of the Atomic was designed by Giordano Robbiati in Milan in 1946 , went into series production in 1947 and was sold worldwide in 20 different types by 1986.
Comparable models
The principle of the coffee percolator was most widespread in the pre-war period. After 1945, models with portafilter included the Atomic in Italy or the Aracati in Germany, for example in Austria, the models by Stella (1948–74), the Desider Stern company . Qalital introduced further variations under the direction of Stern's brother-in-law Imre Simon in Hungary. In Great Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, A & M.G Sassoon also built a variant of the coffee percolator with a portafilter.
The Atomic as a collector's item
Around 2007 the trade in historic Atomic machines reached a peak when new devices changed hands for amounts of up to four-digit US dollars .
Individual evidence
- ^ Giordano Robbiati: Design for a coffee maker or similar article. U.S. Patent 153,826 issued May 7, 1949
- ^ 'Atomic' electric coffee maker, c. 1950 ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Enduring Design 2: The Romance of the Atomic Coffee Maker" Tony Richardson- Second Revised and Expanded Edition, Blurb Press (2009)
