Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola.On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold the rights to the drink shortly before his death in 1888.
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a cola soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company.In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings each day. [1]
Coca-Cola sponsored the 1965 airing of the television special "A Charlie Brown Christmas". [165] Coca-Cola also sponsored the popular Fox singing-competition series American Idol from 2002 until 2014. [166] Coca-Cola was a sponsor of the nightly talk show on PBS, Charlie Rose in the US. [167]
From its heady early history of drug-infused secret formulas to PR stunts, ... In 1886, Atlanta and ... Though the inclusion of cocaine in the original recipe for Coca-Cola is an oft-cited piece ...
Pharmacist John Pemberton sold the first ever bottle of Coca-Cola as a medicine back in 1886. Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date ...
Coca-Cola inventor John Pemberton is known to have shared his original formula with at least four people before his death in 1888. [1] In 1891, Asa Candler purchased the rights to the formula from Pemberton's estate, founded the Coca-Cola Company, and instituted the shroud of secrecy that has since enveloped the formula. He also made changes to ...
A "pinch of coca leaves" was included in John Styth Pemberton's original 1886 recipe for Coca-Cola, though the company began using decocainized leaves in 1906 when the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. In 1879 cocaine began to be used to treat morphine addiction.
The ethanol in the wine acted as a solvent and extracted the cocaine from the coca leaves. It originally contained 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce of wine (211.2 mg/L), [ 4 ] but Vin Mariani that was to be exported contained 7.2 mg per ounce (253.4 mg/L), in order to compete with the higher cocaine content of similar drinks in the United States.