Pioneers timeline

  • 1626 BCE

    Sir Francis Bacon

    Experiment with effect of cold on decay of meat
  • Sir Francis Bacon

    Experiment with effect of cold on decay of meat
  • Thomas Moore

    First electric refrigerator
  • George Crum

    Native American/African American chef invented potato chips
  • Thomas Adams

    Opened first chewing gum factory
  • John Harvey Kellogg

    Corn flakes cereal
  • John S. Pemberton

    Atlanta, GA pharmacist invented Coca-Cola
  • Peter Cooper

    Patent for manufacture of gelatin dessert (later purchased and called Jell-o)
  • Milton Hershey

    Made milk chocolate and sold nationwide at a low price
  • Dr. Harvey Wiley

    Dr. Harvey Wiley
    Chief chemist of USDA- Pure Food and Drug Act 1906
  • James L. Kraft

    James L. Kraft
    Began wholesale cheese business- which led to processed cheese
  • Stephen Poplawski

    Stephen Poplawski
    Invented the blender
  • Edward Haas lll

     Edward Haas lll
    Pez candies in Vienna, Austria
  • Edwin Perkins

    Edwin Perkins
    Nebraska chemist invented Kool Aid
  • Walter Diemer

    Invented Double Bubble gum
  • George A. Hormel

    Founded Hormel and invented SPAM
  • Carl Tupper

    Tupper seal and Tupperware
  • Dr. Peter Schlumbohm

    Invented coffeemaker
  • Percy Le Baron Spencer

    An engineer who invented the microwave oven
  • AC Swanson

    Frozen foods- TV dinner
  • Ermal Fraze

    Created self-opening can by putting first pull tabs on cans
  • J. Robert Cade

    Professor of medicine and physiology- invented Gatorade
  • Charles/Clarence Birdseye

    process of quick freezing
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Quantitative chemical experiments- system to describe structure of chemical
  • Forrest Mars

    Started candy company- developed Mars Bars and created M&M’s
  • Ellen Richards

    Founder of home economics- first woman to be admitted to MIT; worked on air, water & food quality
  • William Mitchell

    A research chemist who invented Pop Rocks and also created Cool Whip