Coca Cola was made by John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist in 1886 he was inspired by simple curiosity, Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, named the mixture Coca-Cola®, and wrote it out in his distinct script. The First Coca-Cola was sold in 1886 from Jacobs' Pharmacy who put it on sale for five cents a glass.
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Coca-Cola's first incarnation was developed by a pharmacist named John Pemberton in 1886. He was trying to create a non-alcoholic alternative to other beverages which were worsening the post-Civil war veterans drinking and drug problems, as well as those of the stressed Southern housewives.
The original recipe for Coca-Cola was made in 1885, when it was marketed as Pemberton's French Wine Coca (a cocawine - a carbonated alcoholic beverage).
In 1886, the city the manufacturer was in (Atlanta) passed a prohibition against alcohol, and so the alcoholic content of the formula was removed and the name was changed from Pemberton's French Wine Coca to Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola was first invented in 1885 by a man named John Pemberton. He was a pharmacist living in Columbus, Georgia. Coke was originally named Pemberton's French Wine Coca. Yes, it had traces of cocaine in it. It does not have that today!