1882—A German patent is granted to Emil Newstadt, Berlin, on one of the earliest coffee-extract-making machines.
1882—The first French coffee exchange, or terminal market, is opened at Havre.
1882—New York Coffee Exchange begins business.
1883—The Burns Improved Sample Coffee Roaster is patented in the United States by Jabez Burns.
1884—The Star coffee pot, later known as the Marion Harland, is introduced to the trade.
1884—The Chicago Liquid Sack Co. introduces the first combination paper and tin-end can for coffee in the United States.
1885—F.A. Cauchois introduces into the United States market an improved porcelain-lined coffee urn.
1885—Property of New York Coffee Exchange is transferred to the Coffee Exchange, City of New York, incorporated by special charter.
1880—Walker, Sons & Co., Ltd., begin experiments in Ceylon with a Liberian disk coffee pulper; fully perfected in 1898.
1886–88—The "great coffee boom" forces the price of Rio 7's from seven and a half to twenty-two and a quarter cents, the subsequent panic reducing the price to nine cents. Total sales on the New York Coffee Exchange.