The first non-carbonated soft drinks appeared during the seventeenth century, Joseph Priestley produced the first man-made palatable, carbonated water in 1767 by dissolving the gas formed from the fermentation process from a nearby beer brewery, in the water.
In 1770 a Swedish chemist, Torbern Bergman expanded upon Priestley’s discovery and invented a process that produced carbonated water from the reaction between chalk and sulphuric acid.
He also dissolved a number of minerals commonly found in popular mineral waters to make his product more closely related to the spa water. Bergman’s apparatus allowed a commercial production of aerated mineral water.
Since the spa water sources dried up at different times of the year, this was a significant development.
In 1783 Jacob Schweppe, a young watchmaker and amateur scientist, perfected an efficient system for manufacturing carbonated mineral water and founded the Schweppes Company in Geneva.
Torbern Bergman and soft drinks
Beverage is a liquid for drinking; drink; usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as an intoxicating beverage. While the history is a systematic accounts of events particularly of those affecting a nation, institution science or art, and usually connected with philosophical explanation of their causes. In this case the history of beverage means that the systematic account about the development of beverage.
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