| 词汇 | adams’ new york gum no 1—snapping and stretching |
| 词源 | Adams’ New York Gum No. 1—Snapping and Stretching. The world’s first modern chewing gum (previously there were gums made of spruce sap, paraffin, and other substances), con- cocted by Thomas Adams Sr. on his Jersey City kitchen stove around 1869, and later manufactured in New York City. Adams may have been the first commercial gum to be made with chi- cle, and this milky liquid from the sapodilla tree was supplied to the inventor by General Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican conqueror of the Alamo, who was exiled in Staten Is- land at the time. Adams first tried to make a cheap rubber sub- stitute from the chicle, as Santa Anna had urged him to do; he failed but then came up with the great gum idea. Later his company merged with eight others into the American Chicle Company. |
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