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Pioneers and Their Contributions
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Sir Francis Bacon
Experiment with effect of cold on decay of meat. -
Thomas Moore
The first electric refrigerator. -
George Crum
Native American/African American chef invented potato chips. -
Thomas Adams
Opened the first chewing gum factory. -
John Harvey Kellog
Corn flakes cereal. -
John S. Pemberton
Atlanta, Georgia pharmacist invented Coca-Cola -
Peter Cooper
Patent for manufacture of gelatin dessert. (Later purchased and named Jell-o) -
Milton Hershey
Made milk chocolate and sold nationwide at a low price. -
Dr. Harvey Wiley
Chief chemist of USDA - Pure Food and Drug Act 1906. -
James L. Kraft
Began wholesale cheese business - which led to processed cheese. -
Stephen Poplawski
Invented the blender. -
Edwin Perkins
Nebraskan chemist that invented Koolaid. -
Edward Haas III
Pez candies in Vienna, Austria. -
Walter Diemer
Made the Double Bubble Chewing Gum. -
George A. Hormel
Founded Hormel and invented SPAM. -
Dr. Peter Schlumbohn
Invented the coffee maker. -
Percy le Baron Spencer
An engineer who invented the microwave oven. -
Carl Tupper
Invented the Tupper Seal and Tupperware. -
AC Swanson
Frozen food - Introduced TV dinner. -
Ermal Fraze
Created self opening can with pull tabs. -
J. Robert Cade
Professor of medicine and physiology. He invented Gatorade also. -
Charles/Clarence Birdseye
Process of quick freezing. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Quantitative chemical experiments system to describe the structure of chemicals. -
Ellen Richards
Founder of home economics and the first woman in MIT. She worked on air, water, and food quality. -
William Mitchell
Research chemist invented Pop Rocks and Cool Whip -
Forrest Mars
Made Mars Bars and M&M's.
