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The manufacturing of a soft drink began in the 1920's. The evolution of soft drinks began more than 2,000 years ago when the "Father of Medicine" first suspected that mineral waters could be beneficial to our wellbeing.
The first patent issued for a glass blowing machine, used to produce glass bottles was in 1899. Plastic bottles are used for soft drinks in 1970!
Envision of drinking the effervescent mineral waters that were bubbling from the earth's crust (effervescent mineral waters are giddy, sparking, bubbly liquids from earths surface).
Years ago, the Greeks and Roman's used this effervescent for bathing and relaxation. The thought of drinking this solution didn't come about until the late 1800's. More than a one thousand years passed before mineral waters made the transition from therapeutics to refreshing beverages.
In that time, physicians and scientists began studying the tiny bubbles fizzing from those waters. Scientists eventually proclaimed the air being released as a carbon gas which is simply carbon dioxide. Later they perfected a way of producing artificially carbonated water in the laboratory. After that development, a few years later soft drinks were experimented with in the lab. Nearly six years after lab experiments were completed soft drinks made it into the hands of the public.
According to Chinese mythology, in 2737 BC the Chinese Emperor, Shen Nung, scholar and herbalist, was sitting beneath a tree while his servant boiled drinking water. A leaf from the tree dropped into the water and Shen Nung decided to try the brew. The tree was a wild tea tree. There are many authentic and supposed references to tea in the centuries before Christ, according to the Chinese dictionary dated circa 350 AD. The Chinese t'u was often used to describe shrubs other than tea, hence the confusion when Confucius allegedly referred to tea or t'u when writing about the "sow thistle" plant in the Book of Odes.
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