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FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1825 to 1835 - Next
1825 Eli Whitney died. Inventor of the cotton gin, but more important he developed the concept of mass producing interchangeable parts.
1825 Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City were granted the first U.S. patent for food storage in cans. They had been canning seafood since developing the process in 1819.
1825 La Physiologie du gout (The Physiology of Taste) published by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
1826 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Died. A French lawyer and politician, author of La Physiologie du gout (The Physiology of Taste) (1825). He was probably the greatest food critic ever.
1826 Joseph-Louis Proust Died. Proust was a French chemist. In 1799 he extracted sugar from grapes, and proved it identical to sugar extracted from honey.
1826 John Fowler born. Fowler was an English engineer who helped develop the 'steam-hauled' plow and several other specialty use plows.
1826 Alfred Ely Beach was born. American inventor and publisher of Scientific American magazine.
1826 Noah Cushing was issued a patent for a threshing and winnowing machine.
1826 John Walker invented the friction match (strike anywhere).
1827 Sir Sanford Fleming was born. He devised the present system of time zones while working for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
1827 The first Mardi Gras celebration was held in New Orleans.
1827 Joseph Dixon began manufacturing the first lead (graphite) pencils.
1827 Josiah Spode II died. Inventor of Fine Bone China (Spode porcelain). It became the standard English bone china.
1828 Casparus van Wooden of Amsterdam, patented chocolate milk powder.
1828 The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is copyrighted.
1828 The cornerstone was laid for the Tremont House in Boston, Massachusetts. It would be the first U.S. hotel to install bathrooms. It opened on October 16, 1829.
1828 The word 'cupcake' is first found in 'Receipts' by E. Leslie.
1828 Jean-Joseph Close Died. The very first pâté de foie gras (goose liver paste) is said to have been created in Strasbourg in 1765 by a Norman chef named Jean-Joseph Close. (Although the technique for producing foie gras goes back as far as the ancient Egyptians)
1828 Dutch process cocoa (cocoa powder) is developed by C.J. Van Houten of the Netherlands.
1829 Yuengling Brewery in Pennsylvania opened. It is the oldest brewery still operating in the U.S.
1829 Levi Strauss was born. Inventor and manufacturer of jeans. He originally planned to make canvas tents for miners in the California gold rush, but soon found that durable pants sold better.
1829 James Carrington of Connecticut patented a coffee mill.
1829 The Tremont Hotel opened in Boston. It was the first modern hotel in the U.S. Rooms were $2 per day with meals included.
1829 Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck died. A French naturalist, he believed in the inheritance of acquired traits. He was the first to draw an evolutionary diagram. Some of his ideas influenced Darwin.
1829 Sylvester Graham invented the Graham cracker.
1831 John Styth Pemberton was born. Pemberton was the pharmacist who invented Coca-Cola in 1885.
1831 Carl von Voit was born. German physiologist whose work on metabolism helped establish modern nutritional science.
1831 Charles Darwin sets off aboard the HMS Beagle, on his historic 5 year voyage of scientific discovery.
1832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born. Dodgson's pen name was Lewis Carroll. He was an English mathematician and creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice had a habit of eating and drinking unknown substances.
1832 Julius Sterling Morton was born. He was the founder of Arbor Day, first observed in Nebraska on April 10, 1872. Over one million trees were planted.
1832 Philip Danforth Armour was born. American industrialist and innovator; pioneer in use of refrigeration and meat canning. Armour & Co. helped make Chicago the meatpacking capital of the world.
1832 Sir John Leslie died. A Scottish physicist and mathematician, he was the first to create ice artificially (freeze water artificially). He used an air pump apparatus.
1833 Marie-Antoine Careme died in Paris. Carême was known as "the cook of kings and the king of cooks". He is the founder and architect of French haute cuisine. His story is one out of a Dickens novel. He was one of 25 (?) children born to an impoverished family who put him out on the street at the age of about 10 to make his own way in the world. Lucky for the world he knocked on the door of a restaurant for a job. He might have knocked on the door of a blacksmith! By the age of 21 he was chef de cuisine to Talleyrand. He also served as head chef to the future George IV of England, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and Baron James de Rothschild. He wrote several large books on cookery, which included hundreds of recipes, menus, history of French cookery, instructions for organizing kitchens, and directions for elaborate architectural constructions of food for display (pièces montées). Carême died at the age of 48.
1833 Gottlieb Sigismund Kirchhof died. Discovered glucose; developed a method for refining vegetable oil; experimented with brewing and fermentation.
1833 Jacob Ebert and George Dulty patented the first soda fountain. Not many soda fountains around anymore.
1833 John Deere developed the first steel plow.
1833 Chicago, Illinois, was incorporated as a village, its population was about 200.
1833 Seaman Asahel Knapp was born. An American agriculturist, he began the system which evolved into the U.S. Cooperative Extension Service.
1834 William Lamb became prime minister of England. (I know it's a stretch, but his name is Lamb!).
1834 Catharine Furbish was born. An American botanist, she spent almost 40 years traveling and painting watercolors of the flora of the state of Maine.
1834 Cyrus McCormick received a patent for the first practical mechanical reaper.
1834 Henry Blair received a patent for a corn planter. He was the first African American to be granted a patent.
1834 English author and poet Charles Lamb died.
1834 The first U.S. patent for a refrigerating machine was issued. Jacob Perkins patented a refrigerating machine which used sulphuric ether compression.
1835 Victor Hensen was born. Oceanographer who coined the name 'plankton' for the tiny organisms in found water. Practically all animal life in the sea is ultimately dependent on plankton.
1835 C.H. Farnham was issued a patent for a hand cranked rotary washing machine.
1835 Charles Darwin arrived at the Galapagos islands aboard the HMS Beagle. The unique fauna he observed on the various islands there helped in forming his theory of natural selection.
1835 Henry Burden was granted the first U.S. patent for a horseshoe manufacturing machine.
1835 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born. American author, pen name Mark Twain, who wrote Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, etc. There are many quotes and descriptions about food and dining in his works. An example is: "A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die." (From 'A Tramp Abroad').
1835 Cesar Ritz was born in Niederwald, Switzerland. Famous hotelier whose name became synonymous with luxury.
1835 Fred Harvey was born in London. Frederick Henry Harvey, he operated a chain of restaurants called the 'Harvey House,' and a series of railroad dining cars and hotels. The restaurants were established along the route of the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railroad, and were staffed by "Harvey Girls", who over the years numbered in the thousands. Will Rogers said Harvey "kept the West in food and wives."
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