George Washington

George Washington

George Constant Louis Washington (May 20, 1871 – March 29, 1946) was a Belgian-born American inventor and businessman. He is best remembered for his invention of an early instant coffee process and for the company he founded to mass-produce it, the G. Washington Coffee Company.An emigrant from his native Belgium, he arrived in the New York area in 1897 and dabbled in several technical fields before hitting upon instant coffee manufacture during a sojourn in Central America in 1906 or 1907. He began selling his coffee in 1909 and founded a company to manufacture it in 1910. Based in New York and New Jersey, his company prospered and became an important military supplier during World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Washington has received more than 30,268,377 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). George Washington is the 231st most popular inventor (up from 238th in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 353rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Inventor.