Thomas adams chewing gum information
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Early Gumball Machine
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Thomas Adams first tried to change chicle into synthetic rubber products, before making a chewing gum. Thomas Adams attempted to make toys, masks, rain boots, and bicycle tires out of the chicle from Mexican sapodilla trees, but every experiment failed. One d
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Thomas Adams - Inventor of the First Modern Chewing Gum
American forskare and uppfinnare Thomas Adams is today remembered as the most important man in the history of the chewing gum industry. Before he invented modern mass-produced chewing gum, there were many other examples of chewing gum use through the millennia. The first finding of gum was funnen in 5000 years old human settlements in land i norden. In those distant times, many old cultures (Aztecs, Ancient Greeks, and Egyptians) used several types of chewing gum as a mouth freshener and medicinal accessory. However, none of these chewing gums komma even close to Thomas Adams' success!
Modern civilization's first widespread use of chewing gum happened in the early 1800s when English settlements picked up the chewing practice from Native Americans. Several inventors started selling chewing gum between 1840 and 1870, most notably John B. Curtis (today regarded as the beginning of commercial chewing gum use) and William Semple (w
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- Prehistoric Man – 9,000-year-old birch bark tarold birch bark tar
- Ancient Greece – Mastic Tree Resin (Mastiche)
- Mayan Indians – Sapodilla Tree Sap(Chicle)
- Native American Indians – Spruce Tree Resin
- 1848 – John Curtis – St. of Maine Pure Spruce Gum
- 1850 – John Curtis – Flavored Paraffin Gum
- 1867 – Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna meets Thomas Adams Sr. “Chicle”
- 1869 – Thomas Adams markets “New York Chewing Gum”
- 1870 – Adams produces first flavored gum (licorice), which was also the first stick of chewing gum
- 1871 – Adams patents first gum making machine
- 1879 – William White discovers how to flavor chicle - choosing peppermint as the first flavor named Yucatan chewing gum
- 1882 – Dr. Edward Beeman adds pepsin powder to chicle & promotes as digestive aid
- 1886 – Jonathan Primely makes the first fruit-flavored gum and a gum called Kis-Me
- 1888 – Adams “Tutti Frutti” becomes first chewing gum in vending m