Who invented aluminum foil and why?
It was the need to protect cigarettes and hard candies from moisture that led to the development of aluminum wrap for the kitchen In 1903, when the young Richard SReynolds went to work for his uncle the tobacco king RRReynolds, cigarettes and loose tobacco were wrapped against moisture in thin sheets of tin-ledAfter mastering this foil technology, in 1919 R.Sestablished his own business, the U.SFoil Co., in Louisville, Kentucky, supplying tin-lead wraps to the tobacco industry, as well as to confectioners, who found that foil gave a tighter seal to hard candies than did wax paperWhen the price of aluminum (still a relatively new and unproven metal) began to drop in the late '20's, R.SReynolds moved quickly to adapt it as a cigarette and candy wrap.
