chewing gum

first store sold gum

Mar 2, 1848

In 1848, John B. Curtis made and sold the first commercial chewing gum called the State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.

first made and sold gum

Mar 2, 1848

1848 John Curtis made and sold the first commercial chewing gum called Maine Pure Spruce Gum.

popular gums

Mar 2, 1850

In 1850, Curtis started selling flavored paraffin gums becoming more popular than spruce gums

new introductions to gum

Mar 2, 1869

In 1869, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna introduced Thomas Adams to chicle.

semple chalk gum

Jul 27, 1869

The first patent for invention of chewing gum in America was bagged by Amos Tyler on 27 July 1869. However, Tyler did not sell his gum commercially. Then, William Finley Semple, an Ohio dentist manufactured chewing gum in December 1869. The chewing gum ingredients used by Semple were chalk and charcoal.

first person to patent a chewing gum

Dec 28, 1869

On December 28 1869, William Finley Semple became the first person to patent a chewing gum - U.S patent #98,304.

first gum manufacturing machine

Mar 2, 1871

In 1871, Thomas Adams patented a machine for the manufacture of gum. The machine helped produce more product faster.

first flavored gum

Mar 2, 1871

1871 Adams created a licorice-flavored gum called Black Jack.. The first flavored gum. Which eventually led to the discovery of all sorts of new flavors of gum.

tastes better, longer

Mar 2, 1880

In 1880, John Colgan invented a way to make chewing gum taste better for a longer period of time while being chewed. Today there are many long-lasting chewing gums.

tutti-frutti

Mar 2, 1888

By 1888, an Adams' chewing gum called Tutti-Frutti became the first chew to be sold in a vending machine. The machines were located in a New York City subway station.

marketing gum

Mar 2, 1892

Mr. Wrigley gave two packets of chewing gum free with a can of baking powder in 1892. Marketing helped sell more product.

dentyne gum invented

Mar 2, 1899

In 1899, Dentyne gum was created by New York druggist Franklin V. Canning

first bubble gum

Mar 2, 1906

In 1906, Frank Fleer invented the first bubble gum called Blibber-Blubber gum. However, the bubble blowing chew was never sold.
It had created the pink bubble gum we see today.

doublement gum was created

Mar 2, 1914

In 1914, Wrigley Doublemint brand was created. William Wrigley, Jr. and Henry Fleer were responsible for adding the popular mint and fruit extracts to a chicle chewing gum.

double bubble

Mar 2, 1928

In 1928, an employee of the Frank H. Fleer Company, Walter Diemer invented a pink colored Double Bubble, bubble gum. The very first bubble gum was invented by Frank Henry Fleer in 1906. He called it Blibber-Blubber. Fleer's recipe was later perfected by Walter Diemer, who called his product Double Bubble.

explodeing gum

Mar 2, 1944

A Pennsylvania man lost several teeth while chewing bubble gum in 1944 when the chunk he was chomping mysteriously exploded!

surgarfree gum

Mar 2, 1950

In the 1950's, as consumers became more health conscious, Sugarless gum was introduced. The original idea behind sugar free gum belongs to a dentist, Dr. Petrulis. Those “dentists approved” chewing gums contained Ammonia. This substance counteracted acid that lead to tooth decay. Dr. Petrulis sold his company to the William Wrigley Co. In the late 1960's, they introduced the first sugar free bubble gum called Blammo.

gum and baseball cards

Mar 2, 1951

In 1951, the Topps Company reinvented the popularity of bubble gum by adding baseball cards to a package, replacing their previous gift of a single cigarette. Children and parents loved this.

space gum

Jun 2, 1965

Chewing gum first went into orbit when astronauts Edward H. White II and James A. McDivitt smuggled the stuff onboard their space capsule during the Gemini IV mission in June 1965.

oldest gum

Mar 2, 1993

Swedish archeologists discovered the world’s oldest piece of chewing gum in 1993: made from tree resin and sweetened with honey, the primitive wad bore the teeth marks of a Stone Age teenager – and was calculated to be at least nine thousand years old.

largest bubble

Jul 19, 1994

On July 19, 1994, Susan Montgomery Williams (1961-2008) adhered herself to the Guinness Book of World Records when she blew the largest bubble gum bubble: a whoppin’ 23 inches in diameter!

gum today

Mar 2, 2011

Today, there are hundreds gum flavors from classic vanilla to the coke flavor. There are many types of gums available in market, from gums used for medical purpose, to the gums that color our teeth Gums are today made from many different ingredients like pepsin, guarantee, nicotine etc.