In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was superintendent of a famous hospital and health spa in Battle Creek, Michigan and his younger brother, Will Keith Kellogg, was the business manager. The hospital stressed healthful living and served its patients a diet that eliminated caffeine, meat, alcohol, and tobacco.
To achieve that objective, the brothers invented many foods that were made from grains, including a coffee substitute and a type of granola, which they forced through rollers and rolled into long sheets of dough.
One day, after cooking some wheat, the men were called away to some other work and when they finally returned, the wheat had become stale. Still, they decided to force the tempered grain through the rollers anyway. The grain did not come out in long sheets of dough. Instead each wheat berry got flattened and came out as a thin flake. The brothers baked the flakes and were delighted with the taste of flakes. They realized they had discovered a new and delicious cereal. Will Keith Kellogg eventually opened his own cereal business, and it is a famous product even today.
Many of the history today lists credit 30 July 1898 as the day, the corn flake was invented.
Sources
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/kellogg.htm
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/kelloggcf.htm
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/kellogg-company-history/
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