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John Matthews (1808–1870) was an English-born American inventor and soda water manufacturer. He is known as "The Soda Fountain King". Matthews manufactured carbonating machinery and distributed his product through retail stores. The equipment was a lead-lined cast-iron box where carbonic acid gas was formed by mixing sulfuric acid with marble ...
His left hand rests on the tap of a soda fountain (1936). An early soda fountain, from an 1872 engraving Hess Brothers Soda Fountain in Allentown PA, 1913. The soda fountain was an attempt to replicate mineral waters that bubbled up from the Earth. Many civilizations believed that drinking, and bathing, in these mineral waters cured diseases.
Charles Leiper Grigg was born in 1868 in Prices Branch, Missouri to Charles L. S. Grigg (1822–1883) and Mary Elizabeth Leiper Grigg (1839–1890). At the age of 22, Grigg moved to St. Louis and began working in the advertising field in which he was introduced to the carbonated beverage business through the various agencies he was partnered.
Tufts was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 11, 1835, to Leonard Tufts and Hepzebah Fosdick Tufts. [1] He was "an entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist. He rose from being a sixteen-year-old drug store apprentice to becoming a wealthy businessman who had the vision and determination to build Pinehurst, in only six months."
La King's Confectionery. Galveston, Texas La King's is a sugar wonderland. Besides operating a vintage 1920s soda fountain, the owners make their own candy, including salt water taffy, divinity ...
Water fountains were very different in the 1800s and early 1900s than they are now, but they still provided an easy way to cool off in the summer. ... 5 ways people stayed cool before air ...
Circa 1890, he dropped out of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, owing to his father's business going bankrupt. After returning to North Carolina, he was a public school teacher for about a year, and soon thereafter opened a drug store in New Bern named the "Bradham Drug Company" that, like many other drug stores of the time, also housed a soda fountain.
Most establishments that serve Coca-Cola in their soda fountains receive concentrated syrup in plastic bags stored in cardboard boxes. Each bag comes with a nozzle that connects to the soda fountain.