Birthday of preserve tin

Verily this day in 1810 British inventor Peter Durand received a patent on the ingenious idea to use preserve tin so as to save vegetable, meat, and milky products for a long time.

At the beginning of XIX century this way of preserving products was truly revolutionary because beforehand food glass containers had been used. Then, people turned to iron cans covered with stannary where the can end was soldered from the bottom side. Needless to say, it was quite hard to open such a preserve tin which weighed, at least, half a kilo. Apart from that, while solder sealing of the similar cans people used harmful hard lead. When the safe alligations were created, a new problem has appeared, particularly, during heat treatment the bottom and cover of the can inflated.

Peter Durand solved this problem keeping air-tightness of the contents soldering the cover of the can to the tin corpus. Nowadays every time when we buy in the shop meat, fish, and vegetables in preserve tins, we rarely think which rich history is included in a small container that became accustomed to everybody.