Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in Hastings, Nebraska
in his mother’s kitchen. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate
called Fruit Smack.

To reduce shipping costs, in 1927, Perkins discovered a way to
remove the liquid from Fruit Smack, leaving only a powder; this
powder was named Kool-Aid. Perkins moved his production to
Chicago in 1931 and Kool-Aid was sold to General Foods in 1953.

Hastings still celebrates a yearly summer festival called Kool-Aid
Days on the second weekend in August in honor of their city’s
claim to fame. Kool-Aid is known as Nebraska‘s official soft drink.
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Pizza Baron – 2604 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, Oregon.

Football player Chip Hinton (Left) trying J. Robert Cade’s invention in 1965.

On October 2, 1965, a team of scientists invented Gatorade,
sports drink to quench thirst, in a University of Florida lab.

The name "Gatorade" is derived from the nickname of the
university’s sports teams. Eventually, the drink becomes
a phenomenon and made its inventors wealthy.

Early in the summer of 1965, University of Florida assistant
football coach Dewayne Douglas met a group of scientists
on campus to determine why many of Florida’s players were
so negatively affected by heat. To replace bodily fluids lost
during physical exertion, Dr. James Robert Cade and his
team of researchers, doctors H. James Free, Dana Shires
and Alex de Quesada, created the now-ubiquitous sports
drink.

1969

In 1892, James Dewar, a Scottish born scientist, working at
Cambridge University, invented the vacuum-insulated flask,
a scientific vessel for storing liquefied gases. It was not a
household item fit for everyday use like carrying warm coffee.

In 1906, the company Thermos GmbH was formed by Burger
with Albert Aschenbrenner and Gustav Robert Paalen. The
production of Thermos-branded bottles in the United States
was based on US patent 13,093 by Burger and Aschenbrenner.

Sir James Dewar 
(20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923)

Reinhold Burger (1866 – 1954) 

Kool-Aid is a brand of flavored drink mix owned by Kraft Heinz based
in Chicago, Illinois. The powder form was created by Edwin Perkins
in 1927 based upon a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack.

The building in Hastings, Nebraska, where Kool-Aid was invented.

Edwin Elijah Perkins
(January 8, 1889 – July 3, 1961)