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Forrest Mars invented M&M’s. Here is how he Discovered that the chocolate would melt in Your hand but in your mouth with the chocolate Candy coating. Lemelsonmit program,M&M’s, May 10,2010

Invention: M & M’s Somewhere in his travels, Mars had come across a candy that was essentially tiny chocolate pellets surrounded by a sugar shell. The design was patented on March 3, That year, M&M, Ltd. began production in Newark, N.J., and the first M&Ms went on sale. The candy, originally sold in paper tubes, came in brown, yellow, orange, red, green and violet, later replaced by tan. (My favorite color in M&M’s in yellow.) That year the company also began television advertising using cartoon characters and launched its famous M&M slogan, "The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand.“ By 1958, demand for M&M's had surpassed 1 million pounds per week. In 1981, M&M's even went to space!!!!!! Can you believe that?!?!?1 M&Ms were also the official candy at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles!!!!!!

Inventor: Forrest Mars Forrest Mars was born on March 21,1904 in Minnesota and raised in Canada after his parents’ divorce. Forrest entered the university of California at Berkeley and later transformed to Yale University where he completed a degree in industrial engineering in Then Forrest joined his fathers company and started working at Mars, Inc. He retired from Mars, Inc. in 1993 and started a new candy company, Ethel M. Chocolates, which soon had sales in the hundreds of millions. Ethel M., named for Mars’ mother, joined M&M® Inc. and Dove as M&M Mars in Today brands include Dove ice cream bars, Twix,, and pet food brands Kal Kan and Pedigree. Forrest died on July 1, 1999 at the age of 95 sadly. At the time of Forrest’s death, his estimated net worth of $4 billion, according to Forbes magazine, made him one of the richest people in the U.S. His sons, Forrest Mars, Jr. and John Mars are now executives with the candy company and also said to be of high net worth, along with his daughter, Jacqueline Mars Vogel.