Anyos Jedlik

Anyos Jedlik (1800-1895) a Benedictine monk, was a genius in experimental physics. Between 1840 and 1878 Jedlik taught physics at Budapest University of Sciences.

During the years 1827-1828 he conducted experiments that result in the invention of the first electromotor.

In 1826 he pioneered a way to produce carbonated water on a commercial scale. To Hungarians, Jedlik is seltzer’s founding father. Jedlik engaged in a serious project of working out the industrial production of soda water and artificial mineral water which had been already used in Geneva since 1798.

‘Artificial mineral waters benefit from adding free carbonic acid into water in a greater quantity than ever or the content of natural waters and this fact is honor for inventors.’ This concept starts the study written by Anyos Jedlik in Latin that is a brief summary of the original procedure made by Jedlik.

In 1826 engaged in the production of the first soda water plant in Hungary. Initially, the soda water crafts were produced by local artisans and sold in glass bottles.
Anyos Jedlik 

1st commercial bottled soda water in United States

Carbonated waters were imported into the USA from the UK prior to 1800. In 1807, Henry Thompson of Tottenham, Middlesex, was granted a British patent for impregnating water with gas.

The first commercial production is attributed to Benjamin Silliman, who was professor of chemistry at Yale College.

Benjamin Silliman had seen carbonated waters in his travels to England and had met Joseph Priestly who had emigrated to the USA.

In partnership with Mr Twinning, he started bottling and selling carbonated water under pressure locally in New Haven, Connecticut in 1807.

In 1809, they purchased costly soda-making equipotent and opened two retail soda-water outlets one at the City Hotel and the other at the Tontine Coffee House.

Silliman manufactured his carbolated water in the cellar, from where iron tubes led upstairs to a decorated manual pump from which customers could be served.

Within a fairly short time, soda water became a popular beverage. Cold soda water was sold everywhere and was in inexpensive enough for most people to joy.

In the late 19th century a druggist invented a flavored soda by adding an extract from the African kola nut. Coca-cola was invented in 1886 by a pharmacist, John Pemberton.
1st commercial bottled soda water in United States

Joseph Priestly (1733 – 1804) invented soda water

Aerated water or soda water as it came to be called was but one of Joseph Priestley’s many inventions.

In 1767, Joseph Priestly produced the first man made, palatable carbonated water. He produced a carbonated water beverage by pouring water back and forth between two small vessel held in a layer of carbon dioxide over the fermenting mass in a brewery vat. Priestly suggested that carbonated water might be useful in curing or preventing sea scurvy.

The Schweppes Company, the earliest bottler of carbonated water regards Joseph Priestly as ‘the father of our industry’.

It was not until 1781 that carbonated water began to be produced on a large scale, with the establishment of companies specialized in producing artificial mineral water.

Jacob Schweppes’s association with Priestly in developing ‘aerated’ waters for commercial sale began in Geneva in 1783.

The first of these factories was built in Manchester, England, by Thomas Henry. The name ‘soda water’ was introduced after chemist Richard Bewley suggested adding a little soda (sodium carbonate).
Joseph Priestly (1733 – 1804) invented soda water