In 1795 the Napoleon’s government was offering 12 000 franks everybody who would be finding an effective way of saving food, especially for needs of army and navy. The man from Paris Nicholas Appert who worked as candle – man, brewer, producer of funnel and vintner consequently, had got an idea: why you could not preserve food in bottles from wine?

He had been working on his idea following 15 years. He was making up food by heating, fulfilling into bottles and shut them with a cork stopper. The bottle he was warming in boiling water. After these countless numbers of experiments he made a conclusion: If the food is shut in an air – tight covering, the air from the inner side is driven out and if the vessel is enough heated, in this way the food could wear well.

Appert tests [partridges, vegetables and sauce] were put in the sea: for four months and 10 days. ” After opening were tests of food testing, ” Appert wrote, ” All were saved fresh and none of them went under undesirable changes in the sea.’ Napolen was satisfied, because scorbutus and hunger made weak his staff more than the fighting actions.

The Napolen`s army was made by food safe on long marshes this way. Now there was a row on Englishmen. The army of Her Majesty could not be behindhand.

In 1810 English king Jiri III gave the patent to Peter Duran for his idea of saving food ‘ in the glass vessel, ceramics, tin – plate or some other metals or solid materials.

Duran wanted to overcome the French invention and to it the tin – plate served him: the vessel made from it could be the same air - tight way shut as the bottle. Much more it was not so fragile as glass and it could be manipulated by it better. This way the classical cylindrical vessel – tin was created.

However Duran himself was not produced the tin, but two other Englishmen take car about this production, they used his patent: Bryan Donkin and John Hall. After more than year experimentation they created canning factory and in 1813 they sent the British Army and navy tins for testing. One year later tins were sent too to British military bases and the irony of fate is it that on the list was so an island Saint Helena, which was determined to Napoleon to exile.

Enrico Caruso on the label of the tin for olive oil.
(taken from http://www.cancentral.com/timel.cfm)

Tins started spreading and producing so in next countries gradually. Firstly it was in Germany, later also in America, where they were taken by American residents. One of them was Thomas Kensett, who could be called the father of canning industry in The USA. He found a small factory with oysters, meat, vegetables and fruits. In the beginning there were only tins from glass, later - after president James Monroe gave him a patent – they were from the tin – plate. The development of canning industry in The USA was hurried with the later civil war. Soldiers, who were used on the canning food, went on doing this praxis so at home and o the consumption of tins rose up till 30 millions in a year. Today there are produced 133 thousand millions in The USA in the same time.

Except the tin plate tins are developing also from aluminum plate or steal plate with the available surf form [especially from the inner side of the future tin} in this time. The tins are producing as two parts, it means the bottom and walls are produced by this way that they are pulled from one piece and the second part forming a top or they are from three parts, it means the wall, bottle and top and they are produced particularly.