Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edwin_Perkins_(inventor)> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 96 of
96
with 100 triples per page.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) abstract "Edwin Elijah Perkins (January 8, 1889 – July 3, 1961), born in Lewis, Iowa, U.S., invented the powdered drink mix Kool-Aid in 1927 in Hastings, Nebraska after his family had moved there from Iowa in 1893.As a young man he worked with products like Jell-O, which was sold in his father's general store in Hendley. When Perkins came to Hastings at age thirty-one in 1920, his principal interests were patent medicines and household products. With that background, he began producing a line of over 125 "Onor-Maid" items which were sold door-to-door and by mail. One of the most popular was "Fruit-Smack," a fruit-flavored liquid concentrate. By 1927, he had developed a powdered soft drink mix called Kool-Ade, which he packaged in envelopes and sold in grocery stores. Demand for this product was so great that it soon had international sales. Before long, the Perkins Products Company was focusing entirely on Kool-Ade, and in 1931 Mr. Perkins relocated to Chicago. By 1934, the name was changed to Kool-Aid. The company was sold to General Foods in 1953.Kool-Aid went on to become a household name and made Edwin Perkins a wealthy man. But the Perkins family remembered its Nebraska roots, donating generously to philanthropies in Adams County and elsewhere in the state. Among local gifts were Perkins Recital Hall and Perkins Library at Hastings College and Perkins Pavilion at Good Samaritan Village.".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) alias "Perkins, Ed".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) birthDate "1889-01-08".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) birthPlace Iowa.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) birthPlace Lewis,_Iowa.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) birthYear "1889".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) deathDate "1961-07-03".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) deathYear "1961".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) spouse Kitty_Shoemaker.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageExternalLink index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32:kool-aid&catid=2&Itemid=42.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageExternalLink index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=90.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageExternalLink 0801_0200.html.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageID "1998030".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageLength "2992".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageOutDegree "26".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageRevisionID "683369118".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Adams_County,_Nebraska.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Category:1889_births.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Category:1961_deaths.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_beverage_industry_businesspeople.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_inventors.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Cass_County,_Iowa.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Hastings,_Nebraska.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Envelope.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Envelopes.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink General_Foods.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink General_store.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Grocery_store.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Hastings,_Nebraska.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Hastings_College.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Hendley,_Nebraska.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Iowa.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Jell-O.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Kitty_Shoemaker.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Kool-Aid.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Kool_Aid.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Lewis,_Iowa.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Nebraska.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink Patent_medicine.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Edwin Perkins (inventor)".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Edwin Perkins".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Perkins Products Company".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) alternativeNames "Perkins, Ed".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) bestKnownFor Kool-Aid.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) bestKnownFor Kool_Aid.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) birthDate "1889-01-08".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) birthPlace "Lewis, Iowa".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) dateOfBirth "1889-01-08".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) dateOfDeath "1961-07-03".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) deathDate "1961-07-03".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) deathPlace "Minnesota".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) hasPhotoCollection Edwin_Perkins_(inventor).
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) name "Edwin Perkins".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) name "Perkins, Edwin".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) placeOfBirth "Lewis, Iowa".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) placeOfDeath "Minnesota".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) religion "Christian".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) shortDescription "American inventor".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) spouse Kitty_Shoemaker.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Find_a_Grave.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:For.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_person.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Persondata.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Portal.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:US-chemist-stub.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:US-engineer-stub.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) description "American inventor".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) description "American inventor".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) subject Category:1889_births.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) subject Category:1961_deaths.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) subject Category:American_beverage_industry_businesspeople.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) subject Category:American_inventors.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) subject Category:People_from_Cass_County,_Iowa.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) subject Category:People_from_Hastings,_Nebraska.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) type Agent.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) type Person.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) type Person.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) type Agent.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) type NaturalPerson.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) type Thing.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) type Q215627.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) type Q5.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) type Person.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) comment "Edwin Elijah Perkins (January 8, 1889 – July 3, 1961), born in Lewis, Iowa, U.S., invented the powdered drink mix Kool-Aid in 1927 in Hastings, Nebraska after his family had moved there from Iowa in 1893.As a young man he worked with products like Jell-O, which was sold in his father's general store in Hendley. When Perkins came to Hastings at age thirty-one in 1920, his principal interests were patent medicines and household products.".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) label "Edwin Perkins (inventor)".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) sameAs m.06cx2b.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) sameAs Q5346744.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) sameAs Q5346744.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) wasDerivedFrom Edwin_Perkins_(inventor)?oldid=683369118.
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) givenName "Edwin".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) isPrimaryTopicOf Edwin_Perkins_(inventor).
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) name "Edwin Perkins".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) name "Perkins, Edwin".
- Edwin_Perkins_(inventor) surname "Perkins".