Thomas adams biography inventor
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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.
Thomas adams biography inventor
The first finding of gum was found in 5000 years old human settlements in Finland. In those distant times, many old cultures (Aztecs, Ancient Greeks, and Egyptians) used several types of chewing gum as a mouth freshener and medicinal accessory.
However, none of these chewing gums come even close to Thomas Adams' success!
Modern civilization's first widespread use of chewing gum happened in the early 1800s when English settlements picked up the chewing practice from Native Americans.
Several inventors started selling chewing gum between 1840 and 1870, most notably John B. Curtis (today regarded as the beginning of commercial chewing gum use) and William Semple (w