BORDEN, Gail [1801-1874] -- American inventor (condensed milk), founder of Borden Milk Co.
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His first invention was a "meat biscuit", which didn't do well. He then turned to finding a way to preserve milk, eventually hitting on a process of evaporation under vacuum, which ultimately proved quite successful.
Successive failures of two milk condensing plants in Connecticut in 1856 and 1857 exhausted his already dwindled reserves. The backing of a New York financier, however, allowed him to continue a few more years. It was not until the outbreak of the Civil War, and the resulting demand for longer lasting condensed milk by the Union army, that Borden's success was finally assured.
Chronology |
1856 | Borden receives his first patent for a process to condense milk |
1857 | First successful condensery plant, at Burrville, CT |
Bookmarks (off-site links) |
- Works by Gail+Borden
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Quotations
- For sale
- BookFinder.com Books by or about Gail+Borden
- The Object at Hand - The Man Who Invented Elsie, the Borden Cow
- Borden Chemical: About Us
- Works about
- Biographical
- Specific periods, events, aspects. Trivia.
- TLC :: Gail Borden Some of his more interesting failures!
- Gail Borden
- Gail Borden, Pioneer by Clarence R. Wharton. excerpts
- Borden's Milk
- Borden's Milk
- Gail Borden, Jr.
- Chronologies, synopses, encyclopedias
- Gail Borden, Jr. (1801-1871)
- Gail Borden
- Handbook of Texas Online: BORDEN, GAIL, JR.
- BORDEN History
- BORDEN, GAIL, JR.
- Specific periods, events, aspects. Trivia.
- Genealogy
- Memorials, tributes, shrines
- Suites
- Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Gail Borden
- Gail Borden Public Library Homepage He never lived in Elgin, and he never donated funds for the library which bears his name. How his name became attached to the library is a mystery.
- PlantFiles: Detailed information on Hybrid Tea Rose 'Gail Borden'
- Bibliographies and Link Farms
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- Search engines A selection of search engines, for Gail+Borden
- Discussion, interviews
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- Collections, archives - Papers
- Historical context, background
- Gallery
- The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). As a character.
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