History of Soft Drinks

Many years ago, the Greeks and Roman's used this effervescent for bathing and relaxation. The thought of drinking this solution didn't come about until the late 1800's. More than a one thousand years passed before mineral waters made the transition from therapeutics to refreshing beverages.

In 1767, the first drinkable manmade glass of carbonated water was created by an Englishman, Dr. Joseph Priestley Three years later, the Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman invented a generating apparatus that made carbonated water from chalk by the use of sulfuric acid. Bergman's apparatus allowed imitation mineral water to be produced in large amounts.

The manufacturing of a soft drink began in the 1930's, but began more than 2,000 years ago when the "Father of Medicine" first suspected that mineral waters could be beneficial to our well-being. The vision of drinking the effervescent mineral waters that were bubbling from the earth's crust (effervescent mineral waters are giddy, sparking, bubbly liquids from earths surface).