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Biography
Thomas Adams: Chewing Gum Inventor
by Jessica Quilty
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Biography
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• Fact and Opinion • Draw Conclusions • Inferring
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• Captions • Illustrations • Time Line
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illustrated by Ralph Canaday
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Have you ever wondered about chewing gum? Gum has a long history. Long ago, Native Americans made gum from tree sap. Later, gum was made from wax. Thomas Adams invented the newest kind of gum. It is the kind that we chew today.
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Thomas Adams, Jr &#; Short Biography
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Thomas Adams, Jr. succeeded in the world of business with a stick of gum.
That&#;s right, this imaginative entrepreneur struck it big time when he got the idea of making chewing gum out of surplus materials he had originally earmarked for manufacturing synthetic rubber products.
This fairly sticky idea is what made Thomas Adams, Jr. a hugely successful businessman, chewing his way all the way to the bank.
Thomas Adams&#; Sticky Road to Success
In the s, two men met. One of them was photographer Thomas Adams; the other was Alamo conqueror and Mexico president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. In the s, Adams switched from photography to a lot of other trades that while unprofitable, served as outlets for his inventiveness. Santa Anna was exiled and came into contact with Adams in Staten Island.
Santa Anna mentioned something that might make Adams rich. It was chicle, a gummy substance that Mexicans were extracting from sapota trees and chewing since everyone can remember.
Adams first tried converting the chicle into synthetic rubber products. He took a stab at making masks, toys, rain boot
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American scientist and inventor Thomas Adams is today remembered as the most important man in the history of the chewing gum industry.
Thomas adams chewing gumAdams served in the Virginia State Senate for three terms until , and he then died the following year in , though as with his birth date, the exact date is unknown. There is no known portrait of Thomas Adams. Thomas Adams in Philadelphia. Adams came to Philadelphia in as a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.Before he invented modern mass-produced chewing gum, there were many other examples of chewing gum use through the millennia. The first finding of gum was found in years old human settlements in Finland. In those distant times, many old cultures (Aztecs, Ancient Greeks, and Egyptians) used several types of chewing gum as a mouth freshener and medicinal accessory.
However, none of these chewing gums come even close to Thomas Adams' success!
Modern civilization's first widespread use of chewing gum happened in the early s when English settlements picked up the chewing practice from Native Americans. Several inventors started selling chewing gum between and , most notably John B.
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Thomas Adams - Inventor of the First Modern Chewing Gum
American scientist and inventor Thomas Adams is today remembered as the most important man in the history of the chewing gum industry. Before he invented modern mass-produced chewing gum, there were many other examples of chewing gum use through the millennia. The first finding of gum was found in years old human settlements in Finland. In those distant times, many old cultures (Aztecs, Ancient Greeks, and Egyptians) used several types of chewing gum as a mouth freshener and medicinal accessory. However, none of these chewing gums come even close to Thomas Adams' success!
Modern civilization's first widespread use of chewing gum happened in the early s when English settlements picked up the chewing practice from Native Americans. Several inventors started selling chewing gum between and , most notably John B. Curtis (today regarded as the beginning of commercial chewing gum use) and William Semple (who filed the first patent on chewing gum in late ).
A significant change in the chewing gum industry came with Thomas Adams (). During his lifetime, he worked as a photographer, glassmaker, and inventor, bu
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