Who invented Coca-Cola?

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Columbus, Georgia Drug store owner Pemberton invented a pop cocawine called Pemberton's French Wine Cola in 1885, although it was originally meant to be a headache medicine. He was inspired by the formidable success of French Angelo Mariani's cocawine, Vin Mariani. The same year, when Atlanta, Georgia, and Fulton County passed prohibition legislation, Pemberton began to develop a non-alcoholic version of the French Wine Coca. His bookkeeper (and later lead marketeer), Frank Robinson, coined the name Coca-Cola, because it included the stimulant cocaine and was flavored using kola nuts, a source of caffeine. Pemberton called for five ounces (140 grams) of coca leaf per gallon of syrup. The first sales were made at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 7, 1886, and for the first eight months only an average of nine drinks were sold each day. Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May 29 that year in the Atlanta Journal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Early_years Dec 04 06, 4:49 PM

What-A-Mess

Coca-Cola (often "Coke") is a carbonated cola and the world's most popular soft drink.[1] The Coca-Cola Company's headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia, where the drink was first concocted around 1886. Coke's inventor John Stith Pemberton was not a shrewd marketer of his drink, and the ownership of Coke eventually passed to Asa Candler, whose company remains the producer of Coke today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola Dec 04 06, 6:00 PM

Yanks2003

John Stith Pemberton invented Coca-Cola. He was a druggist who lived from 1831-1888. Dec 04 06, 7:27 PM

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