What was the first instant coffee?
Nescafe, developed by the Nestle Company and introduced in Switzerland in 1938 was the first instant coffee.
It had taken eight years to develop.
Nescafe, developed by the Nestle Company and introduced in Switzerland in 1938 was the first instant coffee.
It had taken eight years to develop.
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The idea for Alka-Seltzer came from a newspaper editor in Elkhart, Indiana, in the 1920s. It was brought to the public by Hub Beardsley, president of the Dr. Miles Laboratories (now Miles Laboratories). Beardsley learned that an entire newspaper staff had remained free of influenza during an epidemic when they took the editor’s prescription of…
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