Browsing articles by " Peter Pierce"
Jan
22
2011

Who Invented Corn Flakes

Corn Flakes

William Keith Kellogg invented the most popular breakfast cereal known as cornflakes. Kellogg is the family name of the inventor, which is still used as the brand name of his invention. William was working as an assistant to his brother, focussing on the nutritional disorders. In the year 1894, he identified a process of making flakes from maize. The brothers introduced many food products made from grains and cereals as a substitute for regular food […]

Jan
22
2011

Who Invented the Chicken Nugget

Chicken-Nugget

A chicken nugget is a moulded product of chicken, which is battered or breaded and fried or baked. Generally nuggets will undergo a typical deep fry in a little vegetable oil. Chicken nuggets were invented by Robert C. Baker in the year 1950. He was a food science professor at Cornell University. Apart from inventing chicken nuggets, he made other poultry oriented inventions too. And due to his major contributions to the poultry science, he […]

Jan
22
2011

Who Invented Cookies

Cookies

The name cookie has been derived from the Dutch world ‘Koekje’ which means little or small cake. Cookies have said to be originated in Persia during 7th century after the usage of sugar became common in the region. Persians were the first people to cultivate sugar. Persians spread the usage of cookies to European countries through Spain. Ruth Wakefield has received the credit for invention of original cookie. Historic records of cookies revealed that cookies […]

Jan
22
2011

Who Invented Coke

Coca Cola

The soft drink has its origin from the United States of America. Coca Cola shortly referred to as Coke was invented by Doctor John Pemberton in May 1886. The inventor was a pharmacist from Atlanta. The drink was named by the Frank Robinson, the book keeper of John Pemberton. This carbonated soft drink is being sold today in restaurants, stores and many other places in more than 200 countries. The drink is manufactured by the […]

Jan
22
2011

Who Invented Coffee

Coffee

Coffee originated from the north east region of Ethiopia during 15th century. Coffee is prepared by grinding the roasted seeds called coffee beans. Coffee plants were cultivated in Latin America, Africa and South East Asia. Green unroasted coffee was recognized as the world’s most traded agricultural commodity. Coffee always has a simulating effect on people due to its caffeine content. Many societies in the history have been influenced by the usage of coffee. Cultivation of […]

Jan
22
2011

Who Invented Chewing Gum

Chewing-Gum

Before the invention of the chewing gum, people enjoyed many substances that resembled chewing gum. Few materials like latex from trees, thick resin, sweet grasses, grains, etc resembled the gum. Mastic gum, a kind of resin taken from the bark of mastic tree was used by ancient Greeks for chewing. The mastic tree was a shrub like tree developed on the Chios Island, Greece. Flavoured mastic chewing gums were used by Grecian women for cleaning […]

Jan
22
2011

Who Invented Cheeseburgers

Cheeseburgers

Lionel Stemberger first invented cheeseburgers in 1924 while he worked at his father’s sandwich shop in California. It is said the Lionel was 16 the time he was preparing a hamburger and decided to flip a slice of cheese to enhance its taste. There is no clear picture of the kind of cheese he used then, however many sources indicate that it was an American produce. There are some more claims on the invention of […]

Jan
22
2011

Who Invented Cheese

Cheese

It is difficult to say when and how cheese was invented as its origins precede recorded history. Cheese has been around for a long time which makes it impossible to determine who had invented it and when. However, it’s a general belief that cheese was first produced by the people of Middle East around 6000 B.C. Cheese is said to have been discovered when milk was stored in skin bags made of animal fat for […]

Jan
22
2011

Who Invented Cereal

Cereal

Dr. James Caleb Jackson created the first cereal breakfast known as Granula in the year 1863.Granula was a version of the Grape nuts and consisted of heavy grains of Gram flour. Sheets of Graham flour were baked to manufacture the cereal. The dried up sheets were broken into smaller pieces and baked again. These were further broken into smaller pieces for preparing the cereal. However, Granula were not very big on convenience, as they had […]

Jan
20
2011

Who Invented the Bicycle

Who Invented the Bicycle

Bicycles were introduced in 17th century. It was the first medium of transport made using two wheels. The term Bicycle was coined in 1860 in France. The invention of bicycle has brought an enormous impact on society with respect to culture and development of modern industrial methods. It acted as a key factor to several developments in automobile industry. The first bicycle is said to be invented by Pierre Michaux along with Pierre Lallement. In […]