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1626- Sir Francis Bacon
Experimented the effects of decay of cold meat -
1803- Thomas Moore
First electric refrigerator -
1853- George Crum
Native american/ African american chef that invented potato chips -
1869- Thomas Adams
opened first chewing gum factory -
1884- John Harvey Kellogg
first maker of corn flake cereal -
1886- John s. Pemberton
Atlanta pharmacist that created Coca Cola -
1895- Peter Cooper
Patent for manufactured gelatin desert (later called gel-o) -
1905- Milton Hershey
Made Milk chocolate and sold world wide -
1906- Dr. Harvey Wiley
Chief chemist at USDA- Pure food and drug act -
1915- James L. Kraft
began wholesale cheese factory- later made processed cheese -
1922- Stephen Poplawski
invented the blender -
1927- Edward Haas III
Pez candies created Vienna, Austria -
1927- Edwin Perkins
Nebraska Chemist invented Kool Aid -
1928- Walter Diemer
invented double bubble gum -
1937- George A. Hormel
invented Hormel and SPAM -
1941- Dr. Peter Schlumbohm
invented coffeemaker -
1946- Percy Le Baron Spencer
Microwave oven -
late 1940's- Carl Tupper
Tupper seal and tupperwear -
1952- AC Swanson
frozen food-Tv dinner -
1959- Ermal Fraze
self opening cans by putting tabs on them -
1965- J. Robert Cade
Professor that invented Gatorade -
Charles/ Clarence Birds Eye
process of quick freezing -
N/A Antoine Lavoisier
Chemical experiment system to describe structure of chemicals -
N/A Forest Mars
Candy company Mars bars -
N/a William Mitchell
Research chemist that invented cool whip and pop rocks -
N/A Ellen Richards
Founder of home economics. First women in MIT. Worked on food, water, and air quality
