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Wrigley Company | Wrigley Chewing Gum - Candy Favorites - 0 views

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company candy gum favorites

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  • William Wrigley Jr., yep, the founder of the Wrigley Company, believed that even with small things, quality matters. More than 100 years later, candy lovers still enjoy the quality of numerous Wrigley Company products including Wrigley chewing gum, Life Savers, Altoids, and more.We have the complete Wrigley chewing gum selection below so you can choose among Hubba Bubba, Orbit, Extra, Eclipse, Big Red, Freedent, 5 Rain, and others. Whether you are looking for minty, sweet, or sugar-free, you’ll find it all here.
  • Besides Wrigley chewing gum, we carry Chunky Candy Bar, Life Savers candy in several varieties including Sour Gummies, and Squeeze Pops. It’s a Wrigley fan’s paradise.
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bailey spoonemroe

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inventor history notes google

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  • Wrigley is a recognized leader in confections with a wide range of product offerings including gum, mints, hard and chewy candies, and lollipops. Wrigley's world-famous brands – including Extra®, Orbit®, Doublemint®, and 5™ chewing gums, as well as confectionery brands Skittles®, Starburst®, Altoids® and Life Savers® – create simple pleasures for consumers every day. With operations in approximately 50 countries and distribution in more than 180 countries, Wrigley's brands bring smiles to faces around the globe. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, employs approximately 17,000 associates globally, and operates as a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated. Based in McLean, Virginia, Mars has net sales of more than $30 billion, six business segments including Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Food, Drinks, Symbioscience, and more than 70,000 Associates worldwide that are putting our Mars Principles into action to make a difference for people and the planet through our performance.
  • wy candies, and lollipops. Wrigley's world-famous brands – inclu
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    highlighted things on this page!!!
Jessi Bennett

History For Hire - Did You Know? - 0 views

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cellophane history Dupont Brandenberger Inventor

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  • Cellophane was invented by Swiss chemist Jacques E. Brandenberger while employed by Blanchisserie et Teinturerie de Thaon. Inspired by seeing a wine spill on a restaurant's tablecloth, he decided to create a cloth that could repel liquids rather than absorb them.
  • His first step was a waterproof spray coating made of viscose. The coated fabric was stiff, but the clear film easily separated from the backing cloth, and he abandoned his original idea in favor of the new filmy material.
  • It took ten years for Brandenberger to improve the film by adding glycerin
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  • en the material. By 1912 he had a machine to manufacture the film, which he had named Cellophane, from the words cellulose and diaphane ("transparent"). Cellophane was patented that year. The following year, Comptoir des Textiles Artificiels (CTA) bought the Thaon firm's interest in Cellophane and established Brandenberger in a new company, La Cellophane.      
  • Whitman's candy company first used cellophane in 1912 for wrapping their "Whitman's Sampler."
  • DuPont built the first cellophane plant in the U.S.
  • Jessi Bennett on 10 Jan 14
     
    Cellophane first made in DuPont 
bailey spoonemroe

chewing gum -- Britannica School - 0 views

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gum inventor history

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  • Ingredients
  • The various latexes are taken from trees in much the same way that rubber is obtained. The tree is gashed, and the latex drips into canvas bags. It is then boiled to reduce water content, hardened, and kneaded into blocks weighing about 25 pounds (11 kilograms). After shipment to a gum factory, it is purified by heating and straining before being put into a mixer, a vat in which other ingredients are added. After cooling, the mixture is flattened by rolling machines, cut into sticks, and fed into a machine for wrapping and packaging.
  • This is the process used for the standard stick of chewing gum. Gum is also sold in candy-coated pellets or tablets, soft bubble gum, gum balls, and slabs or sticks of bubble gum. Each type is put through a different process. Some bubble gum, for instance, is extruded, or squeezed through holes while still warm, then cut or shaped before being wrapped.Gum balls are coated with a sealer and then sprayed repeatedly with sugar syrup that hardens. Next they are polished with an edible wax. Candy-coated pellets or tablets are treated in much the same way.Chewing gum is a popular product around the world. Manufacturers are located on almost every continent. However, the world’s largest manufacturer of chewing gum is the William Wrigley Jr. Company of Chicago. Other U.S. manufacturers include the Topps Company and the Ford Gum & Machine Company
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  • bailey spoonemroe on 17 Jan 14
     
    another on how gum is made (Britannica)
Jessi Bennett

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cellophane invention accident brandenberger

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  • In fact, it was a stained tablecloth that led to the transparent food protector - cellophane.
  • One day in 1900, Dr. Jacques E. Brandenberger was sitting in a cafe in his native Switzerland, when a hapless customer spilled a glass of wine. That fateful accident would change the landscape of food service forever.
  • While watching the waiter change the tablecloth, Brandenberger had an idea - a stain-resistant tablecloth. He wasn't sure how he'd accomplish it, but it seemed logical to apply a waterproof, flexible coating that would make the tablecloth stainproof.
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  • Brandenberger had failed to find a waterproof tablecloth, but had instead invented a clear, flexible, plastic coating.
  • In 1923 La Cellophane reached an agreement with DuPont to allow that company to market Cellophane in the United States as a flexible covering for food.
  • The first use of this new plastic film was in gas masks.
  • In 1917 Brandenberger gave his patents to La Cellophane Societe Anonyme and joined that organization.
  • By 1938, cellophane sales accounted for 25 percent of DuPont's annual profit.
  • Wood, paper, and cotton all contain cellulose.
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    Accidental Invention of cellophane
bailey spoonemroe

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heritage timeline history

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  • Heritage Timeline Wrigley has been delighting consumers with fun, innovative, high-quality products for over 100 years. From baking powder and soap in Chicago in 1891, to gum, mints, hard and chewy candies, and lollipops around the world today, Wrigley has evolved and expanded with an eye to the future and a steady focus on the consumer. Choose from the dates below or the images to the left to explore Wrigley's rich heritage.
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    A timeline of his life 
  • bailey spoonemroe on 17 Jan 14
     
    this is all good info!!
Katie Gatliff

Heroes of Capitalism: Milton Bradley - 1 views

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capitalism heroes inventor history google board game milton bradley

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  • began to work on making an American board game similar to an imported game he had played with friends. This new game used a top that spun to indicate the number of squares to move, a first in American board games. Bradley was also the first to redefine the purpose of the board game. In his first game, The Checkered Game of Life, Bradley continued the tradition of using the game to impart moral advice to those playing, but he also defined success in the game by looking at how much wealth each player was able to create and obtain.
  • Bradley found success when he used his troubled business to print copies of this new game. Within two days, he sold all the copies he had printed and sold another 40,000 copies of the game in the first year alone.
  • The Smashed-Up Locomotive, Candy Land, and Battleship.
  • Katie Gatliff on 10 Jan 14
     
    good history behind the invention of the checkered game of life
justin creed

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  • In 1968 a 3M scientist developed a reusable adhesive that didn't really stick. The glue he created could hold paper together, but wasn't strong enough to maintain the bond when pulled on. Unfortunately, the scientist was trying to make a super glue. It would take 12 years and a flash of 'eureka' to turn the glue that wouldn't stick into the Post-It Note.
  • While trying to improve the adhesive that 3M used for tape, Silver discovered a less sticky glue. Ordinary adhesives are flat, with a solid contact area for adhesion. It is this unbroken contact that makes glue so sticky. What Silver found was a glue that while quite sticky, could only be formed into individual spheres the thickness of a piece of paper. The spheres would only adhere to things tangentially, thus, the adhesive's total contact area was very small. The result was a tacky, reusable glue that held paper together well. Silver knew he was on to something, but wasn't sure how to market it.
  • In attendance at one of these seminars was a 3M scientist named Arthur Fry. Fry sang in his church choir, and to keep track of the hymns, he tore scraps of paper into strips to make bookmarks. Every Sunday a few would fall out of the hymnal, frustrating Fry. In a moment of 'divine' inspiration, Fry realized that Silver's glue might make the perfect temporary adhesive to hold bookmarks! At work, Fry gathered
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  • scraps of paper and Silver's glue, and combined them to make sticky, but removable bookmarks. The bookmarks were popular and handy, but people didn't need more than a few of them.
  • In 1978 a team of 3M marketers flooded Boise, Idaho, showing everyone they could find the wondrous new notes. Post-It Notes were officially released to the public in 1980, and in 1981 they were named 3M's Outstanding New Product. Today there are over 600 products based on the Post-It concept. Arthur Fry is semi-retired from 3M, maintaining a part-time presence as a mentor. Spencer Silver retired in 1996.
  • When it became clear that Post-It Notes were viable in a commercial atmosphere, 3M's marketing went to work.
  • Fry quickly realized that his bookmark had applications as an adhesive note. Fry believed so strongly in his invention that when engineers told him that a machine didn't exist to manufacture the notes, he went home and built just such a machine in his basement. When he couldn't fit it through his basement door, he knocked the wall down. Now he had his manufacturing equipment, and a great product. The only thing he didn't have was the support of senior management at 3M. To overcome this, Fry sent samples of his notes to all the company's executives, who quickly ordered more samples. Management was quickly hooked, and their demand soon outstripped development's production capacity.
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Max N.

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game board inventor

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  • Candy Land, Chutes and L
  • adders, Mouse Trap, and Cootie
  • didn’t set out to be a game maker
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  • trained as a draftsman, drawing plans for railroad cars
  • lithography business in 1860.
  • Bradley became a game maker fortuitously
  • Playing a board game with a friend, he had an idea for one of his own.
  • He was an early advocate of the emerging kindergarten movement started by Friedrich Fröbel in Germany. Fröbel used toys, called Fröbel’s gifts, to spark the imagination of young children
  • pastime and Puritanical preparation rolled into one.
  • forty-thousand copies
  • beginning of the Civil War
  • Soldiers got bored. And a reasonably priced game kit was just what they needed.
  • Charitable organizations bought and distributed kits made by Bradley.
  • players moved pieces on a converted checkerboard, with labels added to the squares. Landing on the square labeled “industry” transported a player to the square labeled “wealth”. “Gambling” led to “ruin”; “intemperance” to “poverty.” The game was called the “Checkered Game of Life.”
  • embraced the idea, and supplied blossoming kindergartens with educational toys.
  • he continued to produce educational toys even when it put his business at risk
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    :)
  • Max N. on 15 Jan 14
     
    Very good info on Milton Bradley
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