THE FIRST CHOCOLATE BAR WAS MADE BY RODOPLHE LINDT.

The first bars were made in the late 19th century. The first wrapped chocolate bar was sold in 1910 by the Ganong Brothers company in Canada.

I truly don't know...and hadn't thought about it. But whoever it was was a genius!

That would be J.J Fry and Sons the guys responsible for Fry's Turkish Delight. They invented the chocolate bar in 1847. fry's Chocolate Cream came on the scene in 1866. And just for the record the also gave us Easter Eggs as we know them to-day, the first recorded one was in 1873. Thank You Mr.Fry!!!

It depends on what you think of as a chocolate bar. Are you talking about chocolate as a solid and not a drink? A wrapped bar you buy off the shelf of a store? Even then, everyone disagrees. Here are the most famous claims to fame, in chronological order. And no, all of these people cannot be right. Francois-Louis Cailler, Switzerland, 1819, age 23 Did NOT invent the concept. When Callier started producing his chocolates, the first to appear in blocks, and on a large scale, the Italians had for some time already been producing chocolate rolls and sheets that were then sliced into small pieces for sale to local consumers. His great innovation was the development of a smooth chocolate that could be formed into bars. This was a world-wide sensation. In 1825, he opened a second factory, which he later sold to his son Julian and son-in-law Daniel Peter, which is important, because Daniel Peter appears on this list too. In 1847, Joseph Fry & Son -- under the leadership of the original Joseph Fry's great-grandson -- discovered a way to mix some of the melted cacao butter back into defatted, or "Dutched," cocoa powder (along with sugar) to create a paste that could be pressed into a mold. The resulting bar, got people to think about eating chocolate as much as drinking it (which was all the rage at the time popular at the time). John Cadbury added a similar product to his range in 1849, but by today's standards these original chocolate "bars" would not be considered very palatable. They were made of bittersweet chocolate. Milk chocolate was introduced in 1875 when Henry Nestle, a maker of evaporated milk and Daniel Peter, a chocolate maker, got together and invented milk chocolate. In 1879, Rodolphe Lindt thought to add cocoa butter back to the chocolate. Adding the additional cocoa butter helped the chocolate set up into a bar that "snaps" when broken as well as melting on the tongue. This is the first "bar" that would be most similar in consistency to modern chocolate bars. Other people who hold a claim to fame on the candy bar: The Freia company, credited with creating the first wrapped chocolate bar (and it's still being produced), the Freia Melkesjokolade, in Norway, 1906. Also, the Ganong Brothers. Arthur Ganong is credited with being the first to make any sort of a wrapped chocolate bar; selling the first chocolate bars in 1910. In 1920 they began using the brand name "Pal-O-Mine" for their chocolate bar. Obviously they aren't all the first. And they didn't all make the same major breakthroughs. Most of what is hear is fact. How much they should be credited for getting people used to the idea of eating chocolate or wrapped bars or whatever, that depends on which historians you talk to. But remember, these people were far apart, and it isn't like they were huge companies delivering to multiple states or countries. So it's possible, even probably for more than one company to have the same "earth-shattering" impact. Because where they were, it was new. And, it was generally new. Whether someone else beat them out by a year or two across the country or in a different country, it doesn't really matter. And because I didn't want to research the dates and exactly what each person supposedly did for every person, I found and used this site (http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/candybar.htm#The%20Story) for some of my answer. Doesn't have some of the majors who are credited, leaves out some important stuff and has some irrelevant stuff, but saved me from a **** of time. Here's my advice if you do go back to when the first chocolate bars were floating around. Stick to ordering chocolate at a soda counter and avoid eating the experiments. Besides, it's not like you can order chocolate like that today.

i might be a LITTLE BIT biased, but, i'm sure that it was either god or one of the angels!!! i wish that american chocolate were as rich and cremey as western european chocolate ...