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Thousand years ago
• Gum was found thousand year ago -
Sep 17, 1400
chicle
• What they chew was resin a spruce tree and was called chicle -
blibber-blubber
• First gum was called bilbber –blubber, never was sold, and kept sticking to skin. -
expirement of disaster
• A New Yorker named Thomas Adams began to experiment with chicle and he thought he could combine it with rubber. His experiment was a disaster. Another of his thought were if people couldn’t drive maybe they could chew it. -
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gum dental hygiene
• Later in the late 1800 the business was a big hit. IT was said it would help dental hygiene. -
chiclets
• Around the 1900 the Chiclets were born, it was chicle gum with small piece of candy coated on it.