John Pemberton Fulton County enacted temperance legislation, Pemberton had to produce a non-alcoholic alternative to his French Wine Coca. Pemberton relied on Atlanta drugstore owner-proprietor Willis E. Venable to test, and help him perfect, the recipe for the beverage, which he formulated by trial and error. With Venable's assistance, Pemberton worked out a set of directions for its preparation. He blended the base syrup with carbonated water by accident when trying to make another glassful of the beverage. Pemberton decided then to sell this as a fountain drink rather than a medicine. Frank Mason Robinson came up with the name "Coca-Cola" for
Muriel Pemberton had attracted international attention. Her methods were widely copied, with teachers visiting from all over the globe to study her approach. Her students included Katharine Hamnett, Bruce Oldfield, Bill Gibb and Bjorn Lanberg. In 1993, John Russell Taylor published a biography of her life. In 1941, she married John Hadley Rowe (died 1975). Pemberton died at 56 Vale Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, on 30 July 1993. Muriel Pemberton Muriel Alice Pemberton RWS (8 September 1909 – 30 July 1993) was a British fashion designer, painter and academic. According to "The Independent", she "invented art-school training in fashion in Britain". Muriel