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American Chicle Company - Wikipedia Thomas Adams (May 4, 1818 – February 7, 1905) was a 19th-century American scientist and inventor who is regarded as a founder of the chewing gum industry Adams conceived the idea while working as a secretary to former Mexican leader Antonio López de Santa Anna, who chewed a natural gum called chicle
Biography of Thomas Adams, American Inventor - ThoughtCo Thomas Adams (May 4, 1818–February 7, 1905) was an American inventor In 1871, he patented a machine that could mass produce chewing gum from chicle Adams later worked with businessman William Wrigley, Jr to establish the American Chicle Company, which experienced great success in the chewing gum industry
Thomas Adams - Inventor of Modern Chewing Gum Thomas Adams - Inventor of the First Modern Chewing Gum American scientist and inventor Thomas Adams is today remembered as the most important man in the history of the chewing gum industry Before he invented modern mass-produced chewing gum, there were many other examples of chewing gum use through the millennia The first finding of gum was found in 5000 years old human settlements in
The Chewing Gum King - Brooklyn Public Library July 25, 1897 Adams and his son, Thomas Jr began production of the gum in 1871 and in 1888 they opened a factory in Brooklyn, which was one of the largest of its kind in the world The Collection doesn't have a photo of Adams Son chewing gum factory, but I was able to find one of the Federal Chewing Gum Factory, located in Bush Terminal
Thomas Adams | American inventor | Britannica Other articles where Thomas Adams is discussed: chewing gum: Inventor Thomas Adams, whom Santa Anna had contracted to develop a vulcanization process for the substance, was left with a ton of chicle when his experiments failed However, while conducting tests of various formulas, he had discovered that the desiccated resin was insoluble in water and…
Biography of Thomas Adams -- The Man Who Put the Chicle in Chiclets Thomas Adams The Man Who Put the Chicle in Chiclets In 1870, Thomas Adams, a photographer, glassmaker and inventor, was discussing a business proposition with his houseguest, the infamous General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Santa Anna was the man responsible for the massacre of Texans at the Alamo 34 years earlier and the former president of
Thomas Adams - The History of Chewing Gum Thomas Adams first tried to change chicle into synthetic rubber products, before making a chewing gum Thomas Adams attempted to make toys, masks, rain boots, and bicycle tires out of the chicle from Mexican sapodilla trees, but every experiment failed One day in 1869, he popped a piece of surplus stock into his mouth and liked the taste
Thomas Adams — NYC EATS Thomas Adams passed away in 1905 at the age of 87 American Chicle continued to innovate and launch new products, including Pepsin, Beemans, Clove and Teaberry In 1920 they built a massive plant on Thompson Avenue in Long Island City After World War II, various waxes, plastics and synthetic rubber replaced chicle as the base for chewing gum