FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1906 to 1910 - Next
1906 Bel Paese cheese was created. Egidio Galbani created this popular Italian cow's milk cheese. Its name means 'beautiful country,' and supposedly comes from a book written by Father Antonio Stoppani, a friend of the family.
1906 The Hot Fudge Sundae was created at C.C. Browns, an ice cream parlor on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
1906 The term 'filet mignon' is first used by O. Henry in his book 'The Four Million'
1906 Clyde W. Tombaugh was born. An American astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930. Born on a farm near Streator, Illinois, his first telescope was made from old farm equipment parts.
1906 Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company (W.K. Kellogg Company) was founded. Founded by Will Keith Kellogg to manufacture breakfast cereals (cornflakes).
1906 William James Farrer died. An Australian agriculturist, he developed new varieties of wheat.
1906 San Francisco was hit by a devastating earthquake at 5:12 a.m.
1906 The Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed by Congress.
1906 Vincent Schaefer was born. A U.S. research chemist, he invented 'cloud seeding' with dry ice to cause rain or snow.
1906 Karl August Folkers was born. He was the first to isolate vitamin B12.
1906 Joseph Farwell Glidden died. Glidden, an Illinois farmer, received a patent for the first commercial barbed wire on November 24, 1874. The beginning of the end to open range and the cowboy. Glidden formed the Barb Fence Company with Isaac L. Ellwood, and became one of the wealthiest men in the country.
1906 First caterpillar tractor powered by gasoline engine produced by Holt Company.
1906 Upton Sinclair writes “The Jungle”; leads to Meat Inspection Act.
1907 Branding ink for use in meat inspection developed.
1907 Maytag washing machines are introduced. They were an addition to the farm implements the company produce in Newton, Iowa. They were produced during the seasonal slumps in farm implement sales.
1907 Gastronomie pratique (Practical Gastronomy) was published by Henri Babinsky (nicknamed Ali-Bab).
1907 One of the ad campaigns for Kellogg's Corn Flakes (then the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company) offered a free box of cereal to every woman who would wink at her grocer.
1907 Scott Paper Co. introduced the first paper towel.
1907 The Times introduced the New Years Eve Ball on their building at Times Square in New York. Descending to mark the end of the old and the beginning of the New Year ever since.
1907 The Fairmont hotel reopened in San Francisco, one year after being severely damaged by the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
1907 Rachel Louise Carson was born; author of 'Silent Spring.' An American biologist, the book was concerned with the dangers of environmental pollution, especially DDT
1907 The automatic washer & dryer are introduced.
1907 Persil, the first household detergent, was marketed by Henkel et Cie of Dusseldorf.
1907 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz died. An American naturalist, co-founder with her husband (Louis Agassiz), of the Anderson School of Natural History. She was also the first president of Radclife College.
1907 Orville Redenbacher was born. Founder of gourmet popcorn company.
1907 Earl S. Tupper was born. The inventor of Tupperware. (Tupperware makes the containers used to conduct mold and bacterial experiments in the back of refrigerator shelves).
1908 The first commercially successful electric toaster was introduced by General Electric, it sold for $1.45
1908 Half of all Americans live on farms or in small towns with a population of less than 2,500.
1908 Dry Sack Sherry was introduced.
1908 Prohibition begins in Mississippi.
1908 Iceland banned the sale of alcoholic beverages.
1908 The 'Toblerone' chocolate bar is introduced in Switzerland.
1908 Chef Auguste Escoffier made his 2nd visit to the United States. He praised the dish Maryland Chicken, and also liked soft shell crabs.
1908 Carl von Voit died. German physiologist whose work on metabolism helped establish modern nutritional science.
1908 Mel Blanc (Melvin Jerome Blanc) was born. Blanc was a voice actor for Warner Bros. (and other) cartoon characters. Some of the characters he 'voiced' include Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Sylvester the Cat.
1908 John Krohn walked over 9,000 miles around the perimeter of the United States with his wheelbarrow. He completed the walk in 357 days, resting on Sundays.
1908 M.F.K. Fisher (Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher) was born. Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was an American food critic and writer and the author of various articles, essays and books about food. She also translated Brillat-Savarin's 'The Physiology of Taste' in 1949.
1908 The Model T Ford was introduced at a price of $825. Due to efficient mass production, by 1925 the price of a 2 door Model T was only $260.
1908 There are an estimated 75,000 soda fountains in the U.S.
1908 William Keith Brooks died. An influential zoologist, he was a champion for the conservation of the Chesapeake Bay oyster.
1908 Tom Carvel was born. He was the inventor of the soft-serve ice cream machine, and founder of the ice cream chain, Carvel’s
1908 Philadelphia completed the first clean water system in the U.S.
1908 Chicago passed the first compulsory milk pasteurization law in the U.S.
1909 U.S. agricultural exports were about $917 million a year 1900-1909.
1909 800 tons of snails were consumed by Parisians during the winter months.
1909 (or 1912) Nabisco debuts the Oreo cookie.
1909 Marcel Proust had a flashback. He ate a piece of tea-soaked toast whose taste caused a flood of childhood memories.
1909 Carmen Miranda was born. Brazilian singer and actress. Appeared in many Hollywood movies, she was known as "the Brazilian bombshell' and also "the lady in the tutti-frutti hat."
1909 Richard McDonald was born. He was one of the brothers who founded McDonald's fast food restaurants. Richard also designed the golden arches logo. He died in 1998.
1909 Mervyn Hugh Cowie was born. Cowie was a British wildlife conservationist, founder and director of Kenya's Royal National Parks.
1909 Archie Fairley Carr was born. An American biologist and authority on turtles. His extensive studies and conservation efforts helped to increase turtle populations around the world.
1909 The first corporation tax was passed by the U.S. Congress.
1909 'The Chocolate Soldier,' an operetta by Oscar Straus and Stanislaus Strange, opened in New York.
1909 Leo Hendrik Baekeland was issued a patent for 'Bakelite,' the first plastic that did not soften when heated. Those black plastic knobs on stoves, and distributor caps for car engines are examples.
1910 The population of the U.S. is now 91,972,266. Farmers are 31% of the labor force. There are about 6,366,000 farms, averaging about 138 acres.
1910 Of gainfully employed persons, 31 percent were engaged in agriculture.
1910 Wild blueberry domesticated.
1910 'Kid Chocolate' (Elgio Saldana) was born. He became Cuba's first world boxing champion in 1931 after defeating Benny Bass for the Jr. Lightweight Championship.
1910 Joy Adamson was born. Naturalist and author of 'Born Free' about Elsa, a lion cub. She had also researched culinary and medicinal uses of various plants in Kenya.
1910 Thomas Crapper died. He is the frequently said to have invented the flush toilet. He was a plumber, he had several patents issued, but they seem to be improvements to devices invented by others.
1910 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Died. 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 (and on FoodReference.com). 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').
1910 The Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet and nothing happened. There had been dire predictions that everyone would die, and many hucksters sold 'comet pills' to counter the effects of the 'comet gas.'
1910 T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist, was born in Linden, Texas.
1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born. Ocean explorer, marine biologist. Co-inventor of the aqualung.
1910 Roy J. Plunkett was born. He was the inventor of Teflon (Polytetrafluoroethylene) in 1938. The first nonstick cookware using Teflon was sold in 1960.
1910 Ward Baking Company of Chicago, Illinois opent the first completely automated bread plant in the U.S. Untouched by human hands.
1910 Momofuku Ando was born in Taiwan. Mr. Ando was the founder of Nissin Food Products, and invented 'Instant Ramen' noodles.
1910 The first publication of the Paul Bunyan stories of oral folklore, by James MacGillivray in the ‘Detroit News-Tribune’. A mythical hero of giant proportions who had an appetite to match his size. His camp stove had a griddle that was greased by men with sides of bacon strapped to their feet.
1910 Alva J. Fisher of Chicago, Illinois patented the electric washing machine.
1910 Cellophane was invented by Jacques Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist
1910 On July 27, large hailstones fall in Todd and Wadena counties in Minnesota, some weighing as much as 5 pounds.
1910 Ward Baking Company of Chicago, Illinois, opened the first automatic bread factory. The bread, from start to finish, was untouched by human hands, until it was placed in the wrapping machine.
1910 Arnold Neustadter was born. Inventor of the Rolodex rotating card file.
1910 This is one for those who think the electric insect 'zapper is a relatively new device. A patent for the first electric insect 'zapper' was issued to William H. Frost of Spokane, Washington in 1910!
1910 George Claude first demonstrated his new invention, the neon light, at the Paris Motor Show.
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