FOOD INVENTIONS


Who invented smarties?

Who invented smarties?

Smarties are sugar coated confectionaries that are extremely popular in United Kingdom, Canada and Germany. The production was started in 1937 by the H.I. Rowntree & Co. and is now manufactured by Nestle. The Rowntree of York, England had earlier been making chocolate means since 1882 and... 

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Who invented pizza?

Who invented pizza?

Pizza is a dish that essentially is bread topped with various ingredients and then baked in the oven. Since time immemorial the peasant and the common folk of Middle East and Mediterranean made it and wad a part of their cuisine. By 997 AD, the PIZZA had appeared in Rome and was much floured... 

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Who invented cheeseburger?

Who invented cheeseburger?

Cheeseburger was invented in mid 1920s. Many people claim to have invented the cheeseburger. The most believed story is that of Lionel Sternberger who claims to have invented the cheeseburger accidentally, at the age of 16 when he was working in his father’s restaurant in Pasadena, California.... 

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Who invented bubblegum?

Who invented bubblegum?

The story of bubble gum is almost 2000 years old. In the beginning of the 20th century bubble gum first hit the confectionary market. The first bubble gum is said to have been invented by Frank Fleer and Peter Meijer of Fleer Chewing Gum Company of Philadelphia in 1906. However this gum was... 

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Who invented cool whip?

Who invented cool whip?

William A. Mitchell invented cool whip in 1967. General Foods Corporation; a brand name in food products where William worked as a food chemist, introduced the product from its Birds Eye department. The product was a great hit. Later the department merged with Kraft Foods and gave the manufacturing... 

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Who invented cheerios?

Who invented cheerios?

Cheerios was invented in 1941 by Lester Borchardt, an employee of General Mill, Minnesota. Cheerios was the first dish that could be eaten without cooking; it was a ready to eat dish. It was introduced by the same company in the name of cherry oats but as the same name was owned by some other... 

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Who invented alcohol?

Who invented alcohol?

Invention of alcohol dates back to 10000 years. It was in 6000 to 4000 B.C. that the art of making wine from grapes, viticulture started. The area where the wine was discovered was located somewhere around the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. The Egyptians history talks of beer in 9000 B. C.... 

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Who invented ice cream?

Who invented ice cream?

It was around 4000 years back that royal people maintained their ice houses to keep the food fresh. The accounts do talk about King Nero who sent his servants to the mountains to get snow and enjoyed it with honey, nectar and fruit juices. King Tang of China had ninety four icemen who made... 

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Who invented peanut butter?

Who invented peanut butter?

It was in 950 B. C. that first form of peanut butter was found. History suggests many theories as to who invented the peanut butter and when was it invented. Peanut as a crop grew in South America and the Inca civilization consumed it in their food, they used it in the form of a thin paste... 

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Who invented solar panels?

Solar panels are used extensively or generating electricity and power throughout the world. Though the initial investment is quite high, the fuel is cheap and abundant produces hardly any pollution unlike the burning of the fossil fuels.  The solar cell technology is extremely old and work started on this way back in the 1800’s. The [...]

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Who invented sign language?

It was long ago that early man used gestures to express himself. He was the first to use sign language. In 1620 Juan Pablo de Bonet was the one to write a book which had the first alphabet system known to man. He used different signs through hand shapes to represent different sounds of speech. [...]

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Who invented camera?

Johann Zahn designed the first camera in 1685. But the first photograph was clicked by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in the year 1814. It was thousands of years back that an Iraqi scientist Ibn- al- Haytham made a mention of this kind of a device in his book, Book of Optics in 1021. The earlier cameras [...]

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Who invented broom?

The broom is in use since 18th century. The brooms used earlier were made of animal fur and hair tied together with a piece of cloth. The broom was of great importance to clean the cooking area as that was the messiest part of the house and even the wooden floors in those days. The [...]

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Who invented zeppelin?

Zeppelin was invented in 1900 by a military officer of German origin named Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. It was a stiff framed airship, LZ-I that flew on 2nd July, 1900 carrying five passengers near Lake Constance in Germany. Zeppelins were used in the times of peace as well as war. More than 100 zeppelins were [...]

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