William james Morrison was born in 1860. 1890 After graduating from the School of Dentistry of the University of Tennessee, he became a dentist. Morrison often tinkers with some inventions, big and small, and also applied for patents for several important inventions, including the cotton candy machine that will be introduced in this article.
The cotton candy machine can be said to be the product of Morrison's personal interest. Although he is a dentist, he is crazy about sweets. He has an old friend who likes sweets as much as he does, John C. Wharton, a candy maker. In the process of eating sweets, they came up with many strange ideas.
1897, together they turned an interesting idea into reality, and the world's first automatic cotton candy machine was born.
The electric machine they designed and manufactured is very similar to the common cotton candy machine now, and the processing principle is basically the same: there is a metal container with a small hole in the middle of the machine. When making marshmallows, sugar is first added to a metal container, and after heating, the sugar will melt into syrup. When the container rotates at high speed, the syrup will be thrown out of the small hole under the action of centrifugal force, and fine sugar filaments will be pulled out in the process of throwing out. The shredded sugar quickly cools into a solid, and they gather into a ball, and the delicious cotton candy is ready.
Morrison and Wharton made their debut with their cotton candy machines at the 1904 World Expo in St. Louis. The scale of the Expo is huge, attracting 20 million visitors, which is an excellent opportunity for the cotton candy machine to make its debut.
At that time, cotton candy was not called "cotton candy", but Morrison and Wharton gave it a very dreamy name-"fairy floss".
In addition, another American dentist named Josef Lascaux also left his footprints in the development history of marshmallows.
Joseph started making marshmallows more than ten years later than Morrison and Wharton. Although he didn't apply for a patent, he also invented his own cotton candy machine.
Interestingly, the marshmallows he made were not sold to the public, but to patients in his own dentist's office.
The name of the image of "cotton candy" was coined by him in 1920, which was quickly accepted by the public, and then the name "Xiansi" gradually withdrew from the historical stage.