Editing Packaging (section)

====Canning====
[[Image:Canning stewpan advertisement.jpg|thumb|left|upright|1914 magazine advertisement for [[cookware]] with instructions for home canning]]
With the discovery of the importance of airtight containers for [[food preservation]] by French inventor [[Nicholas Appert]], the tin canning process was patented by British merchant [[Peter Durand]] in 1810.<ref>{{cite web|last=Geoghegan |first=Tom |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21689069 |title=BBC News - The story of how the tin can nearly wasn't |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=April 21, 2013 |access-date=June 4, 2013}}</ref> After receiving the patent, Durand did not himself follow up with canning food. He sold his patent in 1812 to two other Englishmen, [[Bryan Donkin]] and John Hall, who refined the process and product and set up the world's first commercial canning factory on Southwark Park Road, London. By 1813, they were producing the first canned goods for the [[Royal Navy]].<ref>{{cite book|page=107|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eAA5M2eIWqwC|title=People and Industries|author=William H. Chaloner|publisher=Routledge|year=1963|isbn=978-0-7146-1284-3}}</ref>

The progressive improvement in canning stimulated the 1855 invention of the [[can opener]]. Robert Yeates, a cutlery and surgical instrument maker of Trafalgar Place West, Hackney Road, [[Middlesex]], UK, devised a claw-ended can opener with a hand-operated tool that haggled its way around the top of metal cans.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Kitchen History|publisher=Taylor & Francis Group|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D7IhN7lempUC|isbn=978-1-57958-380-4|date=September 27, 2004}}</ref> In 1858, another lever-type opener of a more complex shape was patented in the United States by [[Ezra Warner (inventor)|Ezra Warner]] of [[Waterbury, Connecticut]].