1. Jello
Katherine
October 7, 2010
Period 7
Computer # 24

2. Invention: Jell-O
He developed fruit-flavored versions of Cooper’s gelatin and his wife devised the name “Jell-O” for the product.
He sold his business to Francis Woodward in 1897 who in the 1900 began advertising heavily.
By 1906 Jell-O sales nearly $1million dollars.
In 1923, Woodward’s Genesee Pure Food company was renamed Jell-O company.
It eventually combined with Postum Cereal to become the General Foods Corporation.

3. Inventor: Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper is credited with the invention of one of the most uniquely American desserts of all time, “Jell-O”.
Cooper was an engineer and a philanthropist, active in politics and community affairs, known for a variety of inventions and accomplishments.
He had no formal training but as a young man he worked with his father and mastered a variety of skills in masonry, hat- making and machinery.
Cooper died in New York on April 4,1883, at the age of 92
He was involved in the 1858 project that resulted in installing the first transatlantic cable telegraph.

4. Lemelsons MIT Program, Jell-O, Sept 29, 2010, http://web. mit
Music: Free Play Music, TV Star Tonight, 10/4/2010,