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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.
Ezra J. Warner of Waterbury, Connecticut was an American inventor, who patented his design of a can opener in 1858. A crudely shaped bayonet and sickle combo, his design was widely accepted by the U.S. military during the period of the American Civil War .
Warner's grave at Lake Forest Cemetery. He was born in Lake Forest, Illinois, and lived in La Jolla, California, where he worked as an investment counselor. [1] He was the son of Ezra J. Warner, Jr. and grandson of Ezra J Warner, [2] who were wholesale grocery business executives in Chicago, Illinois. [3]
Ezra J. Warner (historian) (1910 – 1974), American Civil War historian This page was last edited on 18 April 2013, at 16:49 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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In the late 1940s and 1950s, TT scale was the "small" scale, allowing for realistic model railroad displays being situated in relatively small areas. Three companies led the TT revolution, H.P. Products of Indiana, United States, Tri-ang of the United Kingdom, and Rokal of West Germany. But TT-Scale was not to be the smallest scale in model ...
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Last year, Ezra Collective brought the party to the Mercury Prize, where they escaped the doomed fate of so many token jazz acts before them and became the first to actually take home the award ...