Candy industry is revolutionized in Boston.

Oliver Chase of the New England Confectionary Company, who had invented a machine to pulverize sugar in 1850, invents a lozenge cutter to produce sugar candy. Called the first “candy machine” in the U.S., it is used to make Necco Wafers (originally Hub Wafers). His brother Daniel Chase subsequently invents a lozenge printing machine subsequently used to produce “Conversation Candies” that later come to be called “Sweethearts.”