{"id":27195,"date":"2026-03-22T00:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27195"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:56:07","slug":"cornstarch-was-patented-by-orlando-jones-in-1841","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27195","title":{"rendered":"Corn Starch Was Patented by Orlando Jones in 1841"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Corn starch was patented by Orlando Jones in 1841<\/strong>. Jones, a British citizen, received US Patent Number 2000A. One of the main uses of corn starch is as a thickener to soups, stews, gravies, and puddings. It also serves as an anti-caking agent. Examples include its addition to confectioner&#8217;s sugar and grated cheese. Children could see the patent at: <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US2000A\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corn Starch Patent<\/a>. Corn starch, when added to a liquid, becomes a non-Newtonian fluid, meaning it is a substance that has both characteristics of a liquid and characteristics of a solid. Children could read <em>Bartholomew and the Oobleck,<\/em> by Dr. Seuss. Then they could make oobleck by following the recipe in <em>The BIG Book of Glues, Brews, and Goos<\/em>, by Diana F. Marks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corn starch was patented by Orlando Jones in 1841. Jones, a British citizen, received US Patent Number 2000A. One of the main uses of corn starch is as a thickener to soups, stews, gravies, and puddings. It also serves as an anti-caking agent. Examples include its addition to confectioner&#8217;s sugar and grated cheese. Children could <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27195' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27195"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27209,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27195\/revisions\/27209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}