History Carbonation of Soft Drinks
The carbonated soft drinks in the form of carbonated water, go back in history to the effervescent mineral waters from natural springs.
Bathing in such waters was long believed to have health giving results, and the waters were often considered as having curative powers as well.
The natural conclusions was, therefore, that, when potable, drinking these waters would also result in a contribution to one’s health.
These carbonated mineral waters were sometimes called “seltzers,” apparently after the name of the natural springs of carbonated water near a small German village called Niederseltsers.
An English scientist, John Priestly, first carbonated a glass of water artificially in 1767 by dissolving the gas formed from the fermentation process from nearby beer brewery, in the water.
A few years later, a Swedish chemist, Torbern Bergman, generated large amounts of CO2 by treating chalk with acid.
The path was opened that eventually, led in gradual steps, including CO2 production from sodium bicarbonate reaction in acid solutions, through the gas production from dry ice CO2 converters, to the modern carbonated soft drinks carbonation processing equipment using the huge bulk storage vessels or pressurized liquid CO2.
History Carbonation of Soft Drinks