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• Vogel, Mark
• Wait, Pearl B. and May Davis
• Webster, Mark
• White, Martha
• Wilhelm IV, Duke
• Williams, Jesse
• Wormer, John Van
• Wrigley, William Jr.
• Wyeth, Nathaniel
• Zola, Emile

Pearl B. and May Davis Wait
(late 19th century)

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 Davis Wait named it Jell-O.

 

 
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