OK, I've looked for details - but they're hard to find. I WILL post up
a URL if I find a good link. The project was around 1998. The machine
was a prototype I think commissioned by Typhoo (need to check this)
for a new flagship tea shop to open in Brighton. The machine worked an
a principal of a rolling boil (actually just below boiling, using an
airstone to agitate the water), removing old leaves and replacing them
with new whilst monitoring tea strength. The whole thing was in a
pyrex globe, and you could see the tea brewing. As you took a cup, the
process made sure there was always fresh made up.

I worked on the air system for a while. I never tasted a cup from it!

I hope this quenched your thirst for more information, sorry I can't
be more specific. If I talk to the guys at the design firm I worked
for, I'll get more details.

Ripon, your account of a tea infusion and love is fantastic. Please
please tell me more in an interview (www.chromo11.com/interview16)

Cheers

Brendan
Research Fellow, Royal College of Art
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