Whois & Analysis for nespresso.com

An espresso machine brews coffee by forcing pressurized water near boiling point through a "puck" of ground coffee and a filter in order to produce a thick, concentrated coffee called espresso.

The first machine for making espresso was built and patented in 1884 by Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy.

An improved design was patented on April 28, 1903, by Luigi Bezzera.

Patent no: US726793 A, which was bought by the founder of the La Pavoni company which from 1905 produced espresso machines commercially on a small scale in Milan.

Multiple machine designs have been created to produce espresso.

Several machines share some common elements, such as a grouphead and a portafilter.

An espresso machine may also have a steam wand which is used to steam and froth liquids, to include milk, for coffee drinks such as cappuccino and caffe latte.

Nespresso is the brand name of Nestlé Nespresso S.A., an operating unit of the Nestlé Group, based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Nespresso machines brew espresso and coffee from coffee capsules, or pods in bar machines, a type of pre-apportioned single-use container of ground coffee beans, sometimes with added flavorings.

Nespresso is a premium price coffee, and by 2011 had sales in excess of annual sales of 3 billion Swiss francs.

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.

The genus Coffea is native to tropical Africa, and Madagascar, the Comoros, Mauritius and Réunion in the Indian Ocean.

The plant was exported from Africa to countries around the world and coffee plants are now cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in the equatorial regions of the Americas, Southeast Asia, India, and Africa.

The two most commonly grown are the highly regarded arabica, and the less sophisticated but stronger and more hardy robusta.

Once ripe, coffee berries are picked, processed, and dried.

Dried coffee seeds (referred to as beans) are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.

Roasted beans are ground and brewed with near boiling water to produce coffee as a beverage.

A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café (sometimes spelled cafe) is an establishment which primarily serves hot coffee, related coffee beverages (e.g., café latte, cappuccino, espresso), tea, and other hot beverages.

Some coffeehouses also serve cold beverages such as iced coffee and iced tea.

Many cafés also serve some type of food, such as light snacks, muffins, or pastries.

Coffeehouses range from owner-operated small businesses to large multinational corporations.

An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the power of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).

An amplifier functions by taking power from a power supply and controlling the output to match the input signal shape but with a larger amplitude.

In this sense, an amplifier modulates the output of the power supply based upon the properties of the input signal.

An amplifier is effectively the opposite of an attenuator: while an amplifier provides gain, an attenuator provides loss.