Walter Diemer, a 23-year-old accountant for Fleer Co. of Philadelphia, invented bubble gum in 1928. The secret formula had defied the best food scientists for decades.

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Bubblegum’s story begins in 1928, when 24-year-old Walter Diemer decided to do some tinkering. He was an accountant at the Fleer Chewing Gum Company and had a habit of experimenting with gum ...