Wigomat
Drip coffee maker
title: "Wigomat" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["coffee-preparation", "german-inventions", "1954-introductions", "1954-in-west-germany", "products-introduced-in-1954"] description: "Drip coffee maker" topic_path: "geography/germany" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigomat" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Drip coffee maker ::
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The Wigomat was one of the world's first electrical drip coffee makers and patented in 1954 in Germany. It was named after the manufacturer Gottlob Widmann "Wi-go-mat", although some early machines were delivered as "FK-1" (for filter coffee machine).
History
Coffee was, until the late 1950s, brewed by hand or made in a percolator. In both cases the temperature was considered to be too high. Therefore, at the launch of the Wigomat it was advertised to have the best brewing temperature. In the 1970s many machines followed the principle of drip coffee, but the Wigomat remained a competitor: "The people at Zabar's tell us that their Wigomat Coffee Maker is one of the best of the currently popular instant-drip coffee makers" wrote a New York-based magazine in 1975.
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