Dr. William Morrison, a dentist, teamed up with candy maker John C. Wharton in 1897 to create the earliest version of the "electric candy machine" we know today to create cotton candy.

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A dentist and a candymaker team up to make history The cotton candy machine was the brainchild of dentist William James Morrison and candymaker Charles Wharton. Morrison was a prodigious inventor ...

In 1951, Gold Medal sealed the deal but inventing a machine that could roll a flat piece of paper into a perfectly tapered cotton-candy cone. Cotton candy isn’t a modern invention.