Later, Natwick labs would take the technology and run with it to create lighter, self stable shelf foods for space travel. For NASA Cheetos, of all things and all sorts, it came from processed cheese products having directly come and indirectly come from the US. Military efforts. After dehydrated, cheese powder was developed in 1943 by the USDA scientist, the military stocked up on this stuff and wound up with a giant surplus in post world war II
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:50
And his two buddies went and sort of privatized it, and my dad didn't and lost a lot of opportunities. It's a very controversial story. I'm sure if you go look up who invented the barcode, you're going to see names that are familiar to me. But that's my story about what was invented for the use of the public that started in the military things so much
bob dennis
@Urbanlegends · 0:55
He would not have had time, and yet he was the one who ultimately took credit for the invention of what we then came to know as the thermal light bulb. And so I think it's true for a lot of things. I will look up the UPC code and see what they say. I'm sure it'll be interesting. Well, thank you for your comments