Schweppe, Jacob

Scheele, Carl, 24, 25, 26 Schrodinger, Edwin, 40 Schweppe, Jacob, 23 Seaborg, Glenn, 69 Seiberling, Charles, 304 Seiberling, Frank A., 304 Sennert, Daniel, 18... 

Sadler as a clever, practical and experimental manipulator in chemistry who had helped him to refurbish the laboratory. He was mechanically inclined and very interested in steam engines, including steam-powered vehicles, despite efforts by Boulton and Watt to hinder his work. In the late 1790s he set up a mineral-water factory near Golden Square, London, using the method published by Joseph Priestley in 1772. Sadler used an image of a balloon as an early version of a corporate logo to sell his soda water, but in contrast to the Drury Lane mineral water factory of the Swiss Johann Jacob Schweppe founded in 1790, ° it was not very successful. He also acted as a chemical advisor to the Royal Navy, but he was not often consulted and he remained in financial difficulties. 

Later, Swiss inventor Johann Jacob Schweppe scaled up the apparatus, making carbonated water available to all. Today, the debate over the health benefits of such waters continues. But the financial benefits are beyond dispute — the lucrative soda pop industry relies on artificially carbonated water. 

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