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FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1841 to 1849 - Next
1841 Juliet Corson born. Cookery teacher and writer, founder of the New York Cooking School in 1876. She wrote many articles and several cookery books, including 'Cooking Manual' (1877), 'Twenty-five Cent Dinners for Families of Six' (1878) and 'Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery' (1886).
1841 Orlando Jones of Middlesex, England received a U.S. patent for a process to make starch from rice or corn.
1841 Englishman Orlando Jones patented cornstarch.
1841 Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' was published, the first modern detective story. This has nothing to do with food, but I am an avid fan of both detective fiction and Poe.
1841 The first wagon train left Independence, Missouri for California in August.
1841 Nicolas Francois Appert died. Inventor of the canning process, preserving food by sealing it in sterilized containers. He published the results of 14 years of research in 1810 & received 12,000 franc award from French government.
1841 Thomas Cook hired a special excursion train between Leicester and Loughborough in England for a temperance meeting. The beginning of Thomas Cook & Son, the worldwide travel agency.
1841 The first wagon of settlers left Independence, Missouri for the trip to California.
1841 Johannes Eugenius Bulow Warming was born. A Danish botanist, he one of the founders of the science of plant ecology.
1841 Alabama becomes the first state to issue dental licenses.
1842 Emil Chrstian Hansen was born. He was a Danish botanist who developed new methods to culture yeast. He revolutionized the beer industry, and proved that there are different species of yeast. He refused to patent the method, but instead made it available for free to other brewers.
1842 Carl Paul Gottfried Linde was born. A German engineer who invented mechanical refrigeration. He developed it so beer could be brewed year round. (Brewing requires low temperatures.)
1842 French painter Édouard Manet was born on this day in 1842. His first significant painting was 'The Absinthe Drinker.' He was an associate of the Impressionists.
1842 Sir James Dewar was born. He invented the 'Dewar Flask,' the original 'thermos bottle'.
1842 Ellen Swallow Richards was born. She was one of the founders of the home economics movement in the U.S.
1842 or 1839 Adolphus Busch was born in either 1839 or 1842 near Mainz, Germany. He founded Annheuser Busch in 1866 with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. Annheuser Busch is the world's largest brewer.
1843 Napoleon E. Guerin received the first U.S. patent for an egg incubator. He also was the first to patent a life preserver.
1843 An alligator reportedly fell from the sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina on July 2. This certainly tops those reports of frogs and fishes raining down!
1843 Melville Reuben Bissell was born. Bissell invented the carpet sweeper in 1876.
1843 Ivan Pavlov was born. He was the first to notice that dogs began to salivate when they could see, smell or taste food.
1843 Stephen Moulton Babcock was born. He developed a test to measure the fat content of milk, which which helped improve the quality of commercial dairy production
1843 Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' was published. It contains numerous and elaborate descriptions of Christmas food and dinners.
1844 The last pair of Great Auks was killed near Iceland. They had been hunted to extinction for food and bait. Great Auks (Garefowl) were almost 3 feet tall, with short wings, similar to penguins. They were flightless, which made them vulnerable to hunters.
1844 Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln was born. She was the author of the original Boston Cooking School Cook Book, before Fanny Farmer took it over.
1844 Henry John Heinz was born. Founder of the H.J. Heinz company and creator of its slogan '57 varieties.'
1845 John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed died. (Date is variously given as March 10, 11 or 18)An American pioneer and legend, he planted apple seeds in the Ohio River valley area (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois)
1845 Stephen Perry received a patent for the rubber band. It was made from vulcanized rubber.
1845 William James Farrer was born. An Australian agriculturist, he developed several new cultivars of wheat.
1845 Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was born. A Swedish scientist and inventor. Among his inventions was the centrifugal cream separator and a vacuum milking machine.
1845 Hatch's sowing machine for wheat, oats and other grasses was first demonstrated.
1845 Henry David Thoreau begins his 2 year experiment with simple living at Waldon Pond.
1845 Eliza Acton's 'Modern Cookery for Private Families' is published in London.
1845 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl died. Charles Grey, 2nd Earl (also Baron Grey and Viscount Howick) was given the recipe for Earl Grey Tea by a Chinese mandarin with whom he was friends (and/or whose life either he or another British diplomat saved).
1845 Peter Cooper, inventor and founder of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, obtained the first American patent for the manufacture of gelatin. In 1895, cough syrup manufacturer Pearl B. Wait purchased the patent and developed a packaged gelatin dessert. Wait's wife, May David Wait named it "Jell-O."
1846 Ira Remsen was born. American chemist, codiscoverer (with Constantine Fahlberg) of saccharin, the artificial sweetener. The FDA has required warning labels, since 1972, on products using saccharin because it is a suspected carcinogen.
1846 (Georges-) Auguste Escoffier was born. Escoffier was called "the emperor of chefs" by Emperor William II of Germany, and is widely know as 'the king of chefs and the chef of kings.' He modernized and codified the elaborate haute cuisine created by Marie-Antoine Careme. Escoffier was chef at the Carlton Hotel in London, the Grande National Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland, the Grand Hotel in Monte Carlo, the Savoy in London and the Ritz hotels in Paris and New York City. His books include 'Guide culinaire' and 'Ma Cuisine.'
1846 Carry Amelia Nation was born. Well known temperance movement activist, she was famous for destroying saloons with a hatchet.
1846 Nancy Johnson invented the hand-cranked ice cream freezer. Nothing more is known about her. Her design was patented in 1848 by William G. Young.
1846 The Tudor Ice Company of Boston shipped 65,000 tons (175 shiploads) of ice, most to the Far East, and the rest to the Southern States.
1847 Thomas Alva Edison was born. Chefs use his inventions everyday, including light and music to work by.
1847 The Donner Party is rescued after being snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas. Almost half of the original 87 members died, and some of the survivors seemed to be well fed considering the ordeal they went through. Cannibalism itself is not a crime, and no charges were ever brought.
1847 Supposedly, Hanson Crockett Gregory, of Rockport, Maine, created the doughnut. His mother's fry-cakes were not cooked in the center, so he used the top of a round tin pepper container to punch the holes, so the dough would cook evenly. (I have doubts about this story)
1847 Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond on September 7.
1847 'The Carolina Housewife' by Sarah Rutledge was published.
1847 Benjamin Delessert died. French industrialist who developed the first successful process to extract sugar from sugar beets.
1848 William Keith Brooks was born. An American zoologist, he was a champion for the conservation of the Chesapeake Bay oyster. Author of 'The Oyster' (1891).
1848 A huge upstream ice jam stopped almost all water flow over Niagara Falls (both American Falls and the Canadian Horseshoe Falls) for several hours. You could actually walk out into the riverbed below the falls.
1848 William Waldorf Astor was born. William Waldorf Astor was a cousin of John Jacob Astor IV, the great grandson of John Jacob Astor. He built the Waldorf section (1893) of what would become the Waldorf Astoria (1897). The Empire State Building (1929) now stands on the site of the former hotel.
1848 William Young of Baltimore, Maryland received the first U.S. patent for an ice cream freezer.
1848 Franklin Hiram King was born. American agricultural scientist and inventor of the cylindrical tower silo.
1848 The first pure food laws were enacted in the U.S.
1848 Francois Auguste Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand died. Chateaubriand was a French writer and politician. His chef, Montmireil, created the famous recipe consisting of a center cut from the beef tenderloin, grilled and served with bearnaise sauce and chateau potatoes. He named the dish Chateaubriand.
1848 M. Waldo Hanchett patented a dental chair.
1848 Auguste-Henri Forel was born. The next time you are on a picnic and become overtaken by ants, think of Forel. If you would like to know about ants, find a copy of his 5 volume 'The Social World of the Ants.'
1848 Pasta is produced commercially in the U.S. for the first time.
1849 Luther Burbank was born. American horticulturist, he developed many new varieties of fruits and vegetables, including the Burbank Potato (1873), the Shasta Daisy, over 100 varieties of plums and prunes and 10 varieties of berries.
1849 Walter Hunt of New York patented the safety pin. However, safety pins existed prior to this.
1849 In Great Britian, Charles Rowley patented a safety pin.
1849 Jacob Perkins died. Jacob Perkins was issued the first U.S. patent for a refrigerating machine. It used sulfuric ether compression.
1849 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born. Pavlov's work with dogs actually started as a study of digestion. He theorized that digestion was controlled in part by sensory inputs of sight, smell and taste - and as he discovered, sound; 'conditioned reflex.'
1849 Self service restaurants first appear in San Francisco during the California gold rush of 1849. At first a selection of free food was placed along the bar in saloons. There were so many people, that soon other businesses opened which charged for serving yourself. You went down the line with a tray, picked what you wanted, and paid at the end of the line.
1849 The 'Hangtown Fry' is created during the California goldrush. The Hangtown Fry is eggs, oysters and bacon cooked together, scrambled or an omelette.
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