Jefferson's vanilla ice cream recipe is considered the first in America and is now preserved at the Library of Congress. Some legends attribute the invention of ice cream to an American named ...

But ice cream on a stick was so novel that the process of making it earned Burt two U.S. patents, thus launching his invention ... and summer days could now be organized around the arrival ...

Martinez is the creator of what is arguably the 20th century’s most epochal invention—the frozen ... he bought a secondhand soft-serve ice cream machine and tinkered with Dad’s recipe.