Nobody knows for certain who made the first ice cream cone. It is possible that several people invented the ice cream cone at the same time.

The edible ice cream cone made its American debut at the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair. Ice cream in a cone was served up by over 50 vendors at the Fair.

Paper and metal cones had been used in Europe for some time to hold ice cream and it was known that cones were being served in England prior to the 1904 World's Fair.

A Lebanese immigrant in the USA, Abe Doumar built one of the first machines for making ice cream cones. Doumar created waffle type cones by adapting a waffle iron into a cone oven. However, Doumar did not make his first cone oven until after the World's Fair.

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