Instant coffee

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
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.