Satori Kato (June 1847 - ?) was a Japanese

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. Kato was initially thought to be the inventor of the first soluble

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whilst working in Chicago, after filing a patent in 1901 and exhibiting the product at the

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until it was rediscovered that David Strang of

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, New Zealand had invented the product twelve years earlier. The New Zealand newspaper, Southland Times, reported on the Strang's patent in 1889.https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST18890706.2.15

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