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]
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]