this was an important invention. without it, we would not have been able to step up in opening our cans. they didnt have pop tops on cans like they do now, and they didnt have the electric can openers.
The first practical can opener was developed 50 years after the birth of the metal can. Canned food was invented for the British Navy in 1813. Made of solid iron, the cans usually weighed more than the food they held! The inventor, Peter Durand, was guilty of an incredible oversight. Though he figured out how to seal food into cans, he gave little thought to how to get it out again. Instructions read: "Cut round the top near the outer edge with a chisel and hammer." Only when thinner steel cans came into use in the 1860s could the can opener be invented. The first (patented in 1858), devised by Ezra Warner of Waterbury, Connecticut, looked like a bent bayonet. Its large curved blade was driven into a can’s rim, then forcibly worked around its edge. Stranger yet, this first type of can opener never left the grocery store. A clerk had to open each can before it was taken away!
(5 years and 2936 days ago)
OMG!!! This is what I was gonna do! Great idea!
thanks rbsgrl
it was the first thing that popped into my head when i read this contest haha
Not sure if it's more important than the beer can opener though ?
nice Idea.
Great idea and great photo! well done
No way! It seems like everytime we get a new one it breaks. I have an electric can opener that looks like its from the 80s and it still works. Metal ones never last that long anymore.
NIce shot though
yeah we have electric one now, but still held onto this one haha.
very cool shot author...gl
Howdie stranger!
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