Time has fogged my memory. In 1957 my grand father came home from work and said he built a coffee pot. He worked at the largest sheet metal / air conditioning company, Hovland's Sheet Metal, in Eau Claire, WI.
Some one from National Presto Industries (Eau Claire was the national headquarters) wanted a coffe pot without a round pour spout. My grand father made the first one out of stainless steel sheet stock sized to fit on the standard heating element that NPI used on their 'spoutted' coffee pots. Several months later when the pot was in production, NPI gave him one as a gift. My grandmother used it until she went to a nursing home in the late 1980's.
Presto®: Company History Coffee pot is half way down the page.
Ludvig S. Holm is lost in history. A craftsman who did his job without any glory, recognition, or extra financial reward.