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1626 - Sir Francis Bacon
Experiment with effects of cold on decay of meat -
1803 - Thomas Moore
First Electric Refrigerator -
1853 - George Crum
Native American/ African American chef invented potato chips -
1869 - Thomas Adams
Opened first chewing gum factory -
1884 - John Harvey Kellogg
Corn flakes cereal -
1886 - John S Pemberton
Atlanta, Ga Pharmacist invented coca-cola -
1895 - Peter Cooper
Patent for manufactured gelatin dessert ( Jell-o) -
1905 - Milton Hershey
Made milk chocolate and sold nationwide at a low price -
1906 - Dr. Harvey Wiley
Chef chemist of USDA- Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 -
1915 - James L. Kraft
Began wholesale cheese business- which led to processed cheese -
1922 - Steven Poplawski
Invented Blender -
1927 - Edward Haas |||
Pez candies in Vienna, Austria -
1927 - Edwin Perkins
Nebraska chemist invented Kool-aid -
1928 - Walter Diemer
Invented double bubble gum -
1937 - George A Hormel
Founded Hormel and invented SPAM -
1941 - Dr. Peter Schlumgohm
Invented coffee maker -
1946 - Percy Le Baron Spencer
An engineer who invented the microwave oven -
Late 1940's - Carl Tupper
Tuppersteal & Tupperware -
1952 - AC Swanson
Frozen food- introduced TV dinner -
1959 - Ermal Fraze
Self- opening can putting first pull tabs on cans -
1965 - J. Robert Cade
Professor of medicine and inventor of Gatorade -
N/A - Forrest Mars
Started candy company - developed mars bars and m&m's -
N/A - Ellen Richards
Founder of Home Economics- first woman to be admitted to MIT; worked on air, water, and food quality -
N/A - Charles/ Clarence Birdseye
Process of quick freezing -
N/A - Antoine Lavoisier
Quantitative chemical experiments system to describe structures of chemical -
N/A - William Mitchell
Research chemist who invented Pop- Rocks & Cool Whip
