On February 21, 1865, U.S. Patent No. 46,454 issued to John Deere on a Plow:
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On February 14, 1871, U.S. Patent No. 111,798 issued to Thomas Adams on an Improvement in Chewing-Gum.
Adams conceived the idea while working as a secretary to former Mexican leader Santa Anna, who chewed a natural gum called chicle. After failing to turn it to a rubber suitable for tires, he made the chicle into a chewing gum called Chiclets.