History of Soda (Water)

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Marc Levinson, Bubbles for All; Joseph Priestly in 1772 showed how to make fizzy water using an apparatus of glass, a pig's bladder, leather pipe, cork and a quill. Wall Street Journal, Dec 16, 2013
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303560204579248132244680064(book review on Tristan Donovan, Fizz; How soda shook up the world. Chicago Review Press, 2013; "a fast-paced ride through the history of the soft-drink industry")

Quote: "Americans now seem to be turning away from fizz. Per capita consumption of soft drinks is down about 16% since it peaked in 1998.

Note:
(a) names:
(i) Tristan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan
(ii) The French and English surname Perrier is an "occupational name for a quarryman, from Old French perrier, an agent derivative of pierre ‘stone’, ‘rock.’"  (Pierre is the French form of English male given name Peter.)
(iii) The North German surname Schwepp is an "occupational name for a maker of whips, from Middle Low German swep(p)e ‘whip.’"
(iv) The English surnames Priestly/Priestley are are names of places, "from Old English preost ‘priest’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, i.e. a wood or clearing belonging to the Church."
(v) Pemberton, Greater Manchester
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemberton,_Greater_Manchester
(for meaning of place name, see section 1 History)
(vi) Mariani means son of Mariano.
(vii) The Italian and Spanish surname Mariano: "from the Latin family name Marianus (a derivative of the ancient personal name Marius, of Etruscan origin). In the early Christian era it came to be taken as an adjective derived from Maria, and was associated with the cult of the Virgin Mary. It was borne by various early saints, including a 3rd-century martyr in Numibia and a 5th-century hermit of Berry, France."

(b) "The author tracks the story of fizz from Hannibal, who apparently watered his elephants at the springs from which Perrier is drawn, to today's world of Big Gulps and two-liter bottles."
(i) Elegant, sparkling and refreshing, with just a hint of zaniness... PERRIER is unique. Perrier, undated
www.perrier.com/en/discoverperrier.html

Quote:

Rainwater forces its way "through the open fissures in the limestone and gushed [on the earth surface]. With the release of the carbonic gas,the water bubbled as if boiling, earning this place the name, “Les Bouillens”, meaning ‘boiling waters’ in French.

"218 BC  Hannibal, the first devotee of little bubbles[:] Legend has it that Hannibal, after crossing Spain with his army to conquer Rome, decided to set up camp in a place that would later be called 'Les Bouillens.' He thought it was the perfect spot; his army could slake their thirst at a carbonated spring that all the soldiers found remarkably refreshing.

(ii) Perrier
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrier
(from a spring in Vergèze in the Gard département; The spring is naturally carbonated; Local doctor Louis Perrier bought the spring in 1898)

(c) French English dictionary:
(i) The noun "bouillen" (singular; plural: bouillens) is not found in modern French.
(ii) bouillon (broth)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouillon_(broth)
(not to be confused with bullion [whose etymology probably was blend of two ancient Frenh words, one of which gave rise to "bouillon." www.m-w.com]; This name comes from the verb bouillir, meaning to boil)

* pronunciation of "bouillon" in English:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bouillon
(iii) vin (noun masculine; from Latin vīnum): "wine"  (Italian/Spanish noun masculine is "vino")

(d) "Among the earliest soft-drink entrepreneurs was Joseph Priestly (1733-1804), the English polymath best known for his early experiments with electricity. Priestly believed that mineral water was conducive to good health, and he was obsessed with finding a way to make it artificially. In 1772, he presented a paper titled 'Directions for Impregnating Water With Fixed Air' to the Royal Society, showing how water, chalk and sulfuric acid could be shaken together in an apparatus made of glass, a pig's bladder, leather pipe, cork and a quill to make fizzy water. The hope that it could prevent scurvy proved unfounded, but British apothecaries were soon selling fizzy water as a cure for kidney disease and ulcers, among other ailments. Priestly's apparatus was soon improved by a German-born jeweler named Jean Jacob Schweppe (1740-1821). By the late 1780s, Schweppe, who lived in Switzerland, was carbonating water drawn from Lake Geneva and exporting it in stoneware bottles. He moved to London and began dispensing bubbly water from a machine outfitted with fake cranks and wheels, the better to protect his design. Schweppe got rich and sold out, but as mineral water became a fad in the 1820s, 'Schweppes' would become one of the first important brands."
(i) All bubbly water in this review are carbonated water, by mixing acid with calcium carbonate when the chemistry was first understood. That is why the review later stated, "For many years, the cheapest way to make water bubbly was to stir in bicarbonate of soda. In the middle of the 19th century, pouring sulfuric acid over marble became the preferred technique for making carbon dioxide, but the name 'soda' stuck."
(ii) soft drink
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drink
(In 1772, Priestley published a paper entitled Impregnating Water with Fixed Air in which he describes dripping oil of vitriol (or sulfuric acid as it is now called) onto chalk to produce carbon dioxide gas, and encouraging the gas to dissolve into an agitated bowl of water

This explains the shaking in the review: "shaken together in an apparatus made of glass, a pig's bladder, leather pipe, cork and a quill."
(iii) soda
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda
(may refer to Some chemical compounds containing sodium)
(iv) Schweppes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweppes
(Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740–1821) manufacture]d] carbonated mineral water, based on a process discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1770, founding the Schweppes Company in Geneva in 1783)

(e) "Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) [was] one of the founders of American science. Silliman supplemented his meager income as Yale's first chemistry professor by selling fizzy water by the glass, promoting it as healthful. Silliman's venture at a New Haven pharmacy was a success, but when he tried to export the concept to New York, he ran up against competitors"

Benjamin Silliman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Silliman
(one of the first American professors of science (at Yale University); in 1854, he became the first person to fractionate petroleum by distillation)

(f) "Coca-cola, first marketed in 1886, spent more than two decades fighting first claims that it contained cocaine, an illicit substance, and then claims that its name misled consumers into believing it contained cocaine when it did not."
(i) Coca-Cola
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola
(Introduced 1886; section 1 History: Please click "Pemberton's French Wine Coca" and "Vin Mariani [created circa 1863 by Angelo Mariani, a Parisian chemist born in Corsica]")
(ii) kola nut
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_nut
(the [caffeine-containing] fruit of the kola tree, a genus (Cola) of trees native to the tropical rainforests of Africa