Who developed the original Coca-Cola beverage?
Asa Griggs Candler
John Stith Pemberton
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Answer
John Stith Pemberton, a pharmacist, developed the original Coca-Cola beverage in 1886. He created the drink as a patent medicine to help control his addiction to morphine, which he had become dependent on after being wounded in the American Civil War.
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