Would you have known? This Jakob Schweppe from Witzenhausen was the founder of the worldwide soft drink industry, yes, the forefather of Coca-Cola. A talented explorer, investor and entrepreneur in his days who changed the world like James Watt or Thomas Edison. He founded a water network in London with industrial soda for the British Empire. He relied on innovative torpedo bottles without bottom. Only they could withstand the pressure of his triple carbonation in the highly compressed soda water. Long before the water pipeline network, humanity could be supplied for the first time with bottled drinking water at an affordable price. Jakob Schweppe’s talent has changed the world in a sustainable way. Because the contained carbonic acid was not only sparkling after champagne type, it provided above all for germ-free water. That was crucial to the health of the sailors of a naval England. Perhaps the world language would have been French if Nelson’s sailors had not sailed at Trafalgar with unkempt heads…