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How the Ice Cream Cone Was Invented | Charlotte News
Ice cream once cost a fortune—President Washington spent $200 on it in 1790, worth over $7,000 today. Mechanical refrigeration in the 1800s made it more affordable, while Italian immigrants invented molds and sandwiches to keep it fresh. The real revolution? The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where Syrian immigrant Ernest Hamwi, selling fried pastries, rolled them into cones for an ice cream vendor—and created the iconic treat we know today. By 1910, “cornucopia” became “cone,” and Hamwi launched his own company. Faster cone machines and lighter cake cones followed, alongside chains like Dairy…
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