Satori Kato (June 1847 - ?) was a Japanese chemist.[1] Kato was initially thought to be the inventor of the first soluble instant coffee whilst working in Chicago, after filing a patent in 1901 and exhibiting the product at the Pan-American Exposition[2] until it was rediscovered that David Strang of Invercargill, New Zealand had invented the product twelve years earlier.[3] The New Zealand newspaper, Southland Times, reported on the Strang's patent in 1889.[4]

References

  1. ^ Kato Coffee Company (1901). "Kato souvenir : Pan-American Exposition". Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  2. ^ US patent 735777, Satori Kato, "Coffee Concentrate and Process of Making Same", issued 1903-08-11, assigned to Kato Coffee Company 
  3. ^ Jones, Bridget (16 December 2012). "Instant coffee invented down south". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  4. ^ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST18890706.2.15
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