The document traces the origins and history of ice cream from ancient times to present day. It notes that ice cream was invented in the 4th century BC and that Roman Emperor Nero used slaves to collect snow to make sorbets. Marco Polo brought back recipes for water ice from Asia in the 1200s. The first recorded iced desserts of frozen milk, cream and eggs were made in Italy in the 1500s. Jacob Fussel produced the first factory-made ice cream in the United States in 1851, making it cheaper and more popular. The first ice cream cone was patented by Italo Marchioni in New York in 1896. Christian K. Nelson invented the choc-ice in 1921 after watching a boy struggle