318: "Cotton Candy"

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Jun 29

Written By JC

Interesting Things with JC #318: "Cotton Candy" - When a dentist by the name of William Morrison and a confectioner by the name of John C. Wharton teamed up, cotton candy as we know it today was invented for the first time in 1897. Together, they built a device that spun heated sugar across a screen to give candy the familiar floss-like texture.

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