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Source: The History of Jello | inventors.about.com
Description: n 1845, industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist Peter Cooper, of Tom Thumb engine and Cooper Union fame, obtained the first patent for a gelatin dessert
Sep 15 2009, 08:10am
Gelatin was discovered by Denis Papin in France in 1682; Jell-O was patented by Peter Cooper (inventor of Tom Thumb) in 1845.