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That Can-Do Spirit

  • November 17, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

British merchant Peter Durand patented the tin can in 1810. But the can opener didn’t exist, so tins had to be opened with a hammer and chisel. In 1870 — 60 years later! — American William Lyman invented the rotary-wheel model that was the basis for modern can openers.

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