Who Invented Soft Drinks?

coca colola Pepsi colola 7Up Sprite Orange Crush Mount deup Fanta iron Brew Fresco whether they are called pop soda soft drinks or something else entirely these sugary fizzy drinks are absolutely everywhere ranking fifth among the world's most popular beverages after water tea fruit juice and coffee in the United States alone some 45 billion liters of soda are consumed every year around 144 lers per person much to the conation of dentists and diabetes researchers everywhere but where did these drinks come from in in the first place how did they come to dominate the global market and why do we love the taste of fizzy drinks so much anyway well relax a crack open a cold one as we dive into the fascinating history of soft drinks just before we get back to Simon in today's video if you've ever been super annoyed at PDF editors as was otherwise our Universal experience in running things here well we got recommended updf which is an AI powered PDF editor that does it all view annotate edit 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for updf for sponsoring this video and supporting our work now back to Simon in today's video in a sense humans have been consuming phizzy drinks for hundreds if not thousands of years after all beer the earliest recipe for which dates from 4,000 years ago is naturally effervescent due to carbon dioxide produced by the fermentation process while in the 17th and 18th centuries French and British venters discovered how to make sparkling wine by adding extra sugar to the bottle and initiating a second round of fermentation and in certain parts of the world rare geological conditions conspire to produce Springs of naturally sparkling mineral water famous examples include the eel region of Germany the PRM region of selenia and the cber quiry in Brazil these Waters were long believed to have helpgiving properties and tourists flock to towns like Nea selters in Germany to bathe in the springs or consume bottles of so-called Seltzer Vasa indeed the name was later corrupted to seltz by yiddish-speaking immigrants to America and giving us one of many modern terms for sparkling water however it was not until the 1770s that someone figured out how to artificially reproduce natural selts of water and that someone was Joseph Priestley in English Presbyterian Minister political theorist and scientific polymath Who is credited with among other things founding Unitarianism in England writing seminal books on enlightenment philosophy in English grammar and discovering multiple chemical substances including nitrous oxide ammonia and oxygen although the latter Discovery is now typically attributed to Swedish chemist Carl vham shield in 1767 Priestly was living in Leeds in a house that stood near the local Brewery he soon became fascinated by the airs or gases given off by the fermentation Vats and after some experimentation determined that these gases were identical to what Scottish physician Joseph black had previously described as fixed air so named because it could be fixed in various materials such as calcium carbonate AKA Limestone and we now know it better as carbon dioxide realizing that this was also the same gas which gave naturally sparkling Spring Water its effervescence Priestly wondered if such water could be artificially reproduced his first method involved suspending a vessel of water above a fermentation vat so the carbon dioxide would naturally dissolve into the water however this method was inefficient and difficult to scale so Priestley developed a new process wherein he combined sulfuric acid with Limestone to generate carbon dioxide which was then bubbled through water using a pig's bladder as a storage vessel and a flow regulator in 1772 Priestly published his findings in a paper entitled impregnating water with fixed air for which he was awarded the prestigious Copley medal by the Royal Society of London for improving natural knowledge for Priestly however carbonated water was little more than a scientific curiosity and he never sought to Comm commercialize his invention he did however Supply his carbonation method to Captain James Cook for his second voyage to the Pacific in the hopes that it would help alleviate the dreaded Maritime disease of scurvy but as we now know that scurvy is caused by vitamin C deficiency this cure was unsurprisingly unsuccessful however carbonated water was found to keep longer and taste better on Long sea voyages than ordinary water likely due to the formation of carbonic acid which is a mild antiseptic given the considerable demand for natural mineral water it not long before others stepped forward to turn artificial sparkling water into an equally lucrative industry several inventors including John mvin newth in England and Tober Bergman in Sweden invented devices for mass-producing carbonated water while the world's first large scale water carbonation plant was built in 1781 in Manchester by English Apothecary Thomas Henry his product with the delightful name of bu's mephitic julip was sold as a health tonic in 1783 and 1792 German Swiss watchmaker Johan yakob schweer established commercial carbonation plants in Geneva and London employing an improved carbon dioxide generation process which replaced Priestly sulfuric acid and Limestone combination with a cheaper and safer mixture of taric acid and sodium bicarbonate artificially sparkling or soda water soon became a favorite beverage among the upper classes including King William IV of the United Kingdom in 1831 the king granted the shps company a royal warrant of appointment causing their products to explode in popularity sadly Jacob schwep did not live to see the success having died 10 years before and if his name sounds familiar is because the company schwep that he founded is still around today and produces a variety of sparkling drinks including tonic water club soda bitter lemon and most famously ginger ale at this point in the video it is probably worth clearing up some terminology here mineral water typically refers to water with carbonated or not sourced from natural springs and is so named because it typically contains a variety of dissolved minerals such as sodium or pottassium chloride citrate bicarbonate or sulfate early producers of carbonated water deliberately added these minerals in order to mimic the flavor profile of natural mineral water and balance the acidity of the dissolved carbon dioxide since at the time sodium salts were collectively called soda artificial mineral water became generally known as soda water today such minerals particularly sodium bicarbonate or baking soda are typically only added to club soda while artificially carbonated water lacking added minerals is typically known as sparkling water or seltzer so now you know initially soda water was drunk straight as a treatment for all sorts of aans from Digestive and nervous complaints impotance and as we've seen scurvy however it was not long before people started mixing it with alcohol fruit juices and syrups as well as other additives indeed in the early 19th century British colonists in India and southern Africa began mixing carbonated water with quinine derived from the bark of the South American chinchona tree to W off malaria however the quinine was so bitter that they soon began adding sugar and later gin to mask the taste creating at a stroke tonic water and the gin and tonic one of the oldest mixed drinks still regularly consumed other early soda flavorings include Ginger first recorded in 1809 birch bark and sassaparilla root AKA root beer such soft drinks were heavily promoted by the burgeoning temperance movement as a morally Superior alternative to hard or alcoholic beverages on this note technically soft drinks aren't just flavored carbonated beverages soft drink refers to nearly all beverages that do not contain significant amounts of alcohol The term soft drink though is now typically used exclusively for flavored carbonated beverages owing to advertising flavored carbonated beverage makers were having a hard time creating National advertisements due to the fact that what you call their product varies from place to place for instance in parts of the United States and Canada flavored carbonated beverages are referred to as Pop in other parts soda in yet other parts Coke and there are a variety of other names commonly used as well then if we go International with the advertisements in England these are called fizzy drinks in Ireland sometimes minerals to account for the fact that they can't refer to their product in the generic Sense on National advertisements because of these varied terms these manufacturers began pushing the soft drink monik and it is more or less Stark ever since in any event due to their Origins as health tonics early soft drinks were mainly sold in pharmacies where the pharmacist would mix unflavored soda water with various flavored syrups to create the final product at first pharmacists created their own syrups but soon commercially manufactured flavorings became available starting with a lemonade concentrate introduced by Richard white in 1845 still sold to this day R White's lemonade is considered the oldest continuously produced soft drink in the world white along with with rival soda manufacturers like scheps would soon expand their product line to include flavors like raspberry strawberry Cherry pineapple orange ginger and vanilla AKA cream soda by the time of the 1851 great exhibition in London visitors could sample dozens of flavors from refreshment carts for just pennies of glass but as the soda industry continued to expand bottle has faced a serious problem how to stop soda water from going flat between the factory and the pharmacy or drinks cart traditionally corked bottles we used to hold wine and beer but these were too inconvenient for the average consumer to open requiring the use of a cork screw storing them upright also resulted in the cork drying out causing it to pop or leak in the soda to lose carbonation a solution was eventually found in the form of the Cod neck bottle invented in 1872 by london-based stof drink maker heram Cobb in Cobb's design a glass marble sealed against a rubber washer in the neck of the bottle held in place by the gas pressure below to open the bottle the Drinker simply pushed the marble down into a larger chamber molded into the bottleneck breaking the seal and releasing the pressure these bottles remained Popular until 1892 when Baltimore engineer William painter invented the cheaper and now ubiquitous Crown cork or crown cap that could be crimped onto the bottleneck and removed with a simple bottle opener however Cod neck bottles never fully went away and are still used for the Japanese soft drink ramune and the Indian soft drink banter yet despite these advancements there was still another problem often the pharmacist or drinks car vendor did not use the entire bottle of soda water at once and the remainder quickly went flat one solution was the plint portable Fountain created in 1813 by English inventor Charles plint this consisted of a spigot valve that could be attached to the neck of an open soda bottle allowing the contents to be intermittently dispensed without the remainder losing its carbonation another more popular solution was to generate carbonated water on the spot rather than buying it prepackaged from a bottler indeed Charles plinth also invented a mobile carbonation car which allowed him to deliver freshly carbonated water to bars all around London this further drove the rising popularity of soda water and led to the creation of another of the world's oldest mixed drinks still commonly served a mixture of soda water gin sugar and lemon juice today known as the Tom Collins then in 1829 French inventor Victor dor for invented a portable soda generator and dispenser called the Selsa Gene this consisted of a thick pressure resistant glass bottle with two dip tubes descending from the cap one to pressurize the bottle with carbon dioxide and the other to dispense the resulting carbonated water early Sela genes also known as Gaza genes featured twin compartments at the top which the user filled with taric acid sodium bicarbon and water to generate the carbon dioxide and indeed one such device features in several of sraa and Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories being a prominent fixture of the great detectives apartment at 221 B Baker Street later variant however had to be recharged AB bottling plants and many manufacturers offered milk delivery like Services where empty bottles were picked up and returned fully pressurized then in 1889 Kenneth Mari of air rers Limited in crayford Kent invented the sparklet a miniature carbon dioxide cylinder that could be inserted into a Seltzer Gene in order to pressurize it by this time however such devices were typically known as soda siphons and you've probably seen them in dozens of slapstick comedies from the 1930s and 40s being used to soak some helpless victim and to learn more about these iconic devices and how they work please do check out the author of this video's piece on his own channel R own devices with the invention of portable carbonation machines soda distribution largely moved out of pharmacies and into dedicated soda fountains where an attendant known as a soda jerk mixed carbonated water from a dispenser on the countertop with flavored syrups ice cream other ingredients to create a wide variety of sweet refreshing concoctions soda fountains and soda in general were especially popular in the United States thanks to local dry laws and the prohibition experiments of 1919 to 1933 which had shuttered traditional social hubs like bars and taverns and due to the ubiquity of the soda fountain model major soft drink companies like Coca-Cola Pepsi colola and Dr Pepper made most of their money selling not pre-bottled soda but rather flavored syrup concentrate indeed this is still largely the case today since the automatic soda fountains found in convenient stores and fast food restaurants work by mixing carbonated water generated with pressurized carbon dioxide with flavored syrup from a bag or tank however starting in the 1920s improvements in industrial bottling technology and the invention of the bottle vending machine led to the steady rise in popularity of pre-bottled soft drinks which by the 1960s had almost completely overtaken the soda fountain model another major driver of this change was World War II because of course it was because it was not practical to set up soda fountains on the battlefield American troops drank soft drinks like Coca-Cola out of bottles which which was supplied to the front in the millions indeed as part of a patriotic and not at all self- serving initiative in 1941 Coca-Cola president Robert Woodruff announced that quote every man in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola for 5 cents wherever he is and whatever it costs the company following the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942 Coca-Cola Executives flew to Algeria to set up a bottling plant to more easily Supply drinks to the Troops by the end of the war 64 bottling lines were operating across both the European and Pacific Theaters of operation at the war's end returning GIS brought their bottle drinking habits home with them starting a nationwide Trend the conflict also gave people across Europe and Asia their first taste of Coca-Cola helping the company grow into a globe spanning multi-billion dollar Juggernaut and more on Coca-Cola's rather fascinating Successful Failure in the bonus facts in the 1950s traditional glass soda bottles began facing competition from a new innovation the metal drink can first introduced in 1954 by the Royal Crown Cola Company better known today as RC Cola the company would later roll out the first all aluminium drink can in 1964 these early cans had to be Op with a punch Star Church key can opener but in 1962 the Pittsburgh Brewing Company introduced the ring Poole tab then in 1975 Fall City Beer introduced the modern star tab which Remains the standard opening mechanism for both alcoholic and soft drink cans to this day and this all now brings us to the question of why do we like fizzy drinks so much what is it about carbonation that makes flavored or even plain water taste so much better the answer surprising ly maybe that all of us are just a little bit masochistic the tingling sensation you feel when you drink soda is actually the pain receptors on your tongue being stimulated by collapsing bubbles this in turn stimulates the release of endorphins enhancing the reward signal already produced by the sugar in the drink this suggests that we enjoy soda for much the same reason we enjoy eating spicy food indeed just as with spicy food a love of carbonated drink seems to be a uniquely human trait labm and other animals will not touch the stuff however bubbles aren't the end of the story in 2013 researchers at the University of Montreal placed test subjects in a hyperbaric chamber and made them taste various carbonated and non-carbonated drinks even though the high pressure in the chamber eliminated the bubbles subjects still overwhelmingly preferred drinks with large amounts of dissolved carbon dioxide this indicates that much of the bite that gives carbonated water its appeal comes not from the bubbles but from carbonic acid which in addition to stimulating pain receptors also helps to counteract the taste of sugar indeed soda companies often add additional acidity to the products usually in the form of citric or phosphoric acid for this very reason this is why a can of Coca-Cola tastes refreshing despite containing nearly 10 tablespoons of sugar and yes that's about twice as much as two Cambry cream eggs you're welcome furthermore research suggests the carbonation fools are tongues into perceiving a drink is being colder than it really is though the exact mechanism behind this phenomenon is still not fully understood so why do we love soda so much well because in the end all we are is walking sentient bags of of Flesh these imperfectly evolved nervous systems are easily fooled by all sorts of random stimuli cheers to that and now a fun little bonus fact is that while manufacturers put the same amount of CO2 in cans as bottles of soda when placed in plastic which is more permeable to CO2 the carbonation will dissipate relatively quickly over time in fact if stored in direct sunlight in 3 months Soder in plastic can lose up to 15% of its carbonation can of Soder on the other hands can have their taste affected by bits of metal that are dissolved from the inner lining and again the war of the container the greater the effect this is one of the reasons many people have preferences when drinking soda from glass versus plastic versus Metal containers on the note of Fizz have you ever wondered if tapping a can of shake and soda actually reduces the likelihood of it fizzing over you when you open it well if you have you should know we did an extensive study to answer that question you can see our video does tapping a shaking can of soda actually reduce foam and now for another bonus fact much like other early soft drinks as mentioned the sickly sweet sugar water known as Coca-Cola was initially marketed as a magical cure all tonic for every kind of nervous Affliction imaginable from headaches to hysteria a condition that fun fact used to be treated in women through medically administered orgasms of course as with so many new Ventures when it first became available to the public on May the 8th 1886 Coca-Cola was a bit of a flop averaging only about nine glasses per day sold in the first year this was despite the fact that it debuted at one of the most popular soda fountains in Atlanta Georgia located in Jacob's Pharmacy for reference here their gross earnings on soda sales according to the owner of the pharmacy Dr Joseph Jacobs was about $150 per day or about $4,100 today of which Coca-Cola accounted for about 45 daily in the first year this is mildly surprising considering that not only is Coca-Cola reasonably tasty but it was also as mentioned being marketed by the medical professionals involved as a cure for countless medical issues including a rather serious one in morphine Addiction on top of that they also pitched it as something of the Viagra of its day no doubt this effect on men is partially how it was supposed to go about curing hysteria in women and if the marketing and flavor didn't work their trump card was the fact that it contained coca leaf extract AKA cocaine as well as lime juice which AIDS in cocaine absorption in the stomach for maximal bang for your buck seemingly this should have seen it quickly become a huge hit though it is noteworthy that various cocaine products were widely available at the time so perhaps people just didn't need to come back to Coca-Cola to get their fix whatever the case as to how its inventor pharmacist John pton came up with the tonic he was specifically looking for a cure for his own morphine addiction you see pton was a former confederate soldier who nearly had his head lopped off in the Battle of Columbus during his recovery from his wounds as with so many others at the time he became addicted to morphine and so was looking for something that would weed him off the Habit this all led him to experimenting with coca leaf extract and thus pemberton's French wine Coco was born which he claimed in the trick though it should be noted that when he died of stomach cancer two years later in 1888 he was still addicted to morphe unfortunately for him his initial concoction also included alcohol from wine which became ban in Atlanta where he lived the same year as he debuted his tonic resulting in him substituting the wine with sugar and citric acid he also of course mixed the whole thing with carbonated water owing to at the time fizzy water being thought to be good for your health as noted finally in 1886 pton was ready to start selling what would eventually become arguably the most famous non-water beverage on Earth after a deal was struck with Dr Joseph Jacobs of the aformentioned Jacobs Pharmacy and the soda fountain operator within Willis Venable Coca-Cola finally graced the world with its presence selling for 5 per serving about $138 a day poor sales and a loan venal had received from Jacobs to build a house ultimately saw venal trade his onethird stake to Jacobs in repayment of said cash advance as for Jacobs he had little interest in producing and marketing the drink and was generally annoyed with having to deal with pton and his huge financial problems thus not long after acquiring Venable's share he sold his entire steak in Coca-Cola to fellow pharmacist Asa Candler for to quote Jacob's some stock in a glass factory on South Prior Street this Factory on which the insurance has been allowed to lapse was destroyed shortly afterward by a fire in addition to the stock I was to receive some odds and ends such as bed pans putter syringes wooden pill boxes and empty bottles Candler after buying out the remaining shares including from pton would start the process that turned the brands into the beverage Powerhouse it is today by 1919 himself selling the brands and the recipe for a cool 25 million which is $361 million in today's money as for peton when he sold his stake to Candler he did have a thought to leave a partial share to his son Charles in the hopes the morphine addiction curing drink would someday become a huge hit however ultimately Charles and he opted to just take as much money as they could get at the time and forgo any further steaking Coca-Cola pton died shortly thereafter in poverty and his son Charles followed him about 6 years later ironically dying of a morphine overdose for

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