ThomasAdams

=**Thomas Adams – The Chewing Gum Mastermind**=

**This was Invented in:** 1869

 * Born-Died:** 1871-1940

From 1923 to 1930 he was the directer of the New York Regional Plan. Thomas Adams was also a Photographer, and a glass maker and obviously an inventor in 1870.
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 * Thomas Adams Family life:**
 * His first child died at childbirth but his second child did survive
 * On 10 May 1811,the parish records disclose that Thomas Adams was baptised.
 * The grandfather of Thomas Adams was also Thomas Adams. It was a common family name as will be seen.
 * The Humberstone patriarch it was in this town he was raised, married, had children, worked and died in.

**Additional Facts:**

 * Some Facts about Thomas:**
 * Thomas Adams went to a drugstore at the corner, while he was there, a little girl came into the shop and asked for a chewig gum for one penny then thats when Thomas new he was famous.
 * His son was very much impressed, and suggested that they make up a few boxes of chicle chewing gum and give it a name and a label.
 * The rediscovery of chicle by the American inventor Thomas Adams in the 1860s laid the foundation for modern chewing gum.
 * His only great invention was made during the 1850s.
 * Thomas Adams formed new company called "American ChicleCompany"
 * In 1888, a Thomas Adams' chewing gum called **Tutti-Frutti** became the first gum to be sold in a vending machine.

**Inventions:**

 * Chewing Gum Types:**
 * **Bubble gum** - bubble gum have property of blowing bubbles because film-forming characteristics.
 * **Sugar-free gum** - Instead of sugar, sugar-free gum has artificial sweeteners to provide the taste.
 * **Ball Gum** – This gum has shape like ball. It is one of the most popular chewing gums.
 * **Center-filled Gum** – center-filled gum in his center has a soft mass, usually filled with some tasty liquid.
 * **Stick gum** - chewing gum Stick gum is a thin, flat, slab of gum usually in rectangular shape.
 * **Ribbon Gum** - ribbon gum is like the stick gum, only it is longer, coiled up in a cylindrical container, and the consumer tears off a piece of the size he wants.
 * **Tab gum** – tab gum is shorter than stick gum and also thicker.
 * **Tube gum** - tube gum or spaghetti gum comes in a tube and gum inside tube is a very soft bubble gum.
 * **Dragée gum** – dragée gum has the most popular format for chewing gum, dragée gum is a pillow-shaped coated pellet, often packed in blister packs.**Wrap gum** – wrap gum and cut gum is usually in the form of a chunk, cube or cylindrical shape, depending of the machine that wraps it.
 * **Functional Gum** - functional gum is chewing gum that has a practical function attached to it, like chewing gum with vitamins and minerals or something else to the body.
 * **Medicated gum** – medicated gum is a chewing gum with purpose to introduce medicated substances into blood stream faster than pills.
 * **Nicotine gum** – nicotine chewing gum is designed for people who are trying to quit smoking. This gum contains a small amount of nicotine. Idea is to give the smoker something to do, besides hold a cigarette in their mouth.

The idea came when he was trying to make toys, masks, rain boots, and bike tires but the experments failed. One day for some unknown reason he put a piece of surplus stock in his mouth and liked the taste of it. He added some flavor and started making it. People have enjoied gum since the ancent times. The greeks chewed on mastiche. The Mayans first chewed chicle over 1,000 years ago. The Indians chewed on sap and the american pienerers picked up on it. When he started selling the gum could not keep up with orders so he made a machine that had gum in it and called it a gumball machine and so the gum ball machine works today.


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