page_title: List of people from Bangor, Maine
section_title: Inventors
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Bangor, Maine / Inventors
context_page_description: The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bangor, Maine.
context_section_description: Commercial Chewing gum was invented in Bangor in 1848 by John B. Curtis, who marketed his product as "State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum". He later opened a successful gum factory in Portland, Maine. Coincidentally, Bangor-born Frank Barbour, who became a director (and later Chairman of the Board) of the Beech-Nut Packing Company, would launch that company's famous chewing gum line in 1910.
  Col. Paul E. Watson of Bangor, chief engineer of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, headed the team that built the army's first long-range radar in 1936–37. This was the radar deployed in Hawaii at the time of the Pearl Harbor Attack. The Army's radar laboratory was named "Watson Laboratories" after his death, and became the kernal of the present USAF Rome Laboratory.
  Chuck Peddle, who developed the MOS 6502 microprocessor in 1975, was born in Bangor in 1937.
  Bangor-born Melville Sewell Bagley invented an aperitif named Hesperidina, using the peels of bitter oranges, which became the national liquor of Argentina. It is still produced, with his image on every bottle.
caption: The MOS 6502 Microprocessor, designed by Chuck Peddle in 1975
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