| 词汇 | chewing gum |
| 词源 | chewing gum. The world’s first modern chewing gum was Adams’ New York Gum No.1—Snapping and Stretching. (Pre- viously there were gums made of spruce sap, paraffin, and oth- er substances.) Adams’ was concocted by Thomas Adams Sr. on his Jersey City kitchen stove around 1869 and later manu- factured in New York City. Adams’ was the first commercial gum to be made with chicle and this milky liquid from the sapodilla tree was, according to one story, supplied to the in- ventor by General Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican conqueror of the Alamo, who was exiled in Staten Island at the time. Adams first tried to make a cheap rubber substitute 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. The first successful bubblegum was invented by Fleer’s employee Walter Diemer in 1928. |
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