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A can opener (North American and Australian English) or tin opener (British English) is a mechanical device used to open metal tin cans. Although preservation of food using tin cans had been practiced since at least 1772 in the Netherlands, the first can openers were not patented until 1855 in England and 1858 in the United States.
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A Vietnam War-era P-38 can opener, with a U.S. penny shown for size comparison.. The P-38 (larger variant known as the P-51) is a small can opener that was issued with canned United States military rations from its introduction in 1942 to the end of canned ration issuance in the 1980s. [1]
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The can saw very little change since then, although better technology brought 20% reduction in the use of steel, and 50% - in the use of tin [7] (the modern cans are 99.5% steel). [ 9 ] Canned food in tin cans was already quite popular in various countries when technological advancements in the 1920s lowered the cost of the cans even further.
Star / Star Can Opener Co., San Francisco, CA / can opener / patent 1360256 Nov 30 1920 & 1528178 Mar 3 1925 & 1598841 Sep 7 1926 Edwin Anderson / see also Turner & Semour / The same can opener was also manufactured by Turner & Seymour Co. as the “STAR” brand can opener, stamped with all three of the above patent numbers.