selling individual chocolates, but in 1854, he introduced his first box of candies, whitman's choice next sugar plumes from stephen f whitman, packaged in a frilly container. it became the first packaged in a printed and trademarked package. sugarplum's referred to any candy, not just one type. whitman patented his machine forecasting confectionery in 1875. the machine used a steam pillbox around in the body to heat the pre-molded batch, which was to be poured into multiple vessels located on the top. a lever controlled a sliding gate underneath to control several streams of material simultaneously. as a testament to stephen whitman, 160 years later, the name is still synonymous with .hocolate richard ho was an american press maker who in 1843 invented the rotary press, which revolutionized printing. the press printed both sides of a sheet of paper at the same time. the first rotary press could print up to 8000 pages in our. larger presses made printing larger newspapers possible. ho received over 30 patents for his inventions. his inventions were responsible for the company becoming one of the most successful man