Complete the text using the following verbs (sometimes passive, sometimes active)
APPLY - CHANGE - DECIDE - DEVELOP (x3) - ERECT - FORM - INTRODUCE (x2) - INVENT - LAUNCH - SELL
Instant coffee
in 1901 by Satori Kato, a Japanese scientist working in Chicago. Kato
the powdered substance in Buffalo, New York, at the Pan-American Exposition.[1] George Constant Louis Washington
his own instant coffee process shortly thereafter, and first marketed it commercially (~1910). The Nescafé brand, which
a more advanced coffee refining process,
in 1938.
High-vacuum freeze-dried coffee
shortly after World War II, as an indirect result of wartime research into other areas. The National Research Corp.
in Massachusetts as a process-development company employing high-vacuum technology. It
high-vacuum processes to produce penicillin, blood plasma and streptomycin for US military use. As the war ended, NRC looked to adapt its processes for peacetime uses. It formed Florida Foods Corp. to produce concentrated orange juice powder, and originally
its product to the United States Army. That company later
its name to Minute Maid, and
to produce concentrated orange juice instead of powdered OJ. The company then
its high-vacuum expertise to the production of instant coffee. A plant
in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1949 to perfect this process, and by 1951 the product was well-developed.