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#REDIRECT [[American Chicle Company#Thomas Adams]] |
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[[File:Ruth Roland - 1919 Adams Gum Ad.jpg|thumbnail|An advertisement of Adams chewing gum]]. |
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'''Thomas Adams''' ([[May 4]], 1818 – [[February 7]], 1905),<ref>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=59373693&PIpi=37338138</ref> was a 19th-century [[United States|American]] [[scientist]] and [[inventor]] who is regarded as a founder of the [[chewing gum]] industry. He eventually joined with well-known chewing gum maker [[William Wrigley, Jr.]] |
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Adams conceived the idea while working as a [[secretary]] to former [[Mexican people|Mexican]] leader [[Antonio López de Santa Anna]]. Santa Anna chewed a natural gum called [[chicle]].<ref>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A06E6D7163DE733A2575BC0A9649C946497D6CF</ref> Adams first tried to formulate the gum into a rubber suitable for [[tire]]s. When that didn't work he made the chicle into a chewing gum called [[Chiclets]], which is still produced today.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nypl.org/branch/staten/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=1391|title=Staten Island on the Web: Famous Staten Islanders |publisher=New York Public Library |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090210133645/http://www.nypl.org/branch/staten/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=1391 |archivedate=February 10, 2009}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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{{Persondata |
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| NAME = Adams, Thomas |
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| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =tom |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American inventor |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = May 4 1818 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = California |
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| DATE OF DEATH = 1905 |
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| PLACE OF DEATH =America |
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}} |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Thomas}} |
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[[Category:1818 births]] |
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[[Category:1905 deaths]] |
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[[Category:American inventors]] |
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[[Category:American scientists]] |
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[[Category:Businesspeople in confectionery]] |
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[[Category:Cadbury]] |
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[[Category:Chewing gum]] |
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[[Category:History of Mexico]] |
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[[Category:People from Staten Island]] |
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[[Category:Political history of the United States]] |
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[[Category:Rubber]] |
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[[Category:Wrigley Company]] |
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