Peter Durand

So he collected the 12,000 francs prize, and he published his groundbreaking method for the world.

Um, just months after that, across the English Channel, there was an inventor named Peter Durand, and he patented that, uh, the idea.

So he took Appert's idea, and he patented the tin canister.

It was a tin-plated iron canister.

So he collected the 12,000 francs prize, and he published his groundbreaking method for the world.

Um, just months after that, across the English Channel, there was an inventor named Peter Durand, and he patented that, uh, the idea.

So he took Appert's idea, and he patented the tin canister.

It was a tin-plated iron canister.

can opener if you didn't have a tin can?

But you know how long it took for them to create a can opener? How long? So 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can.

And then 50 years later, 1858, almost 50 years later, Ezra Warren invented a can opener.

So for 50 years, they were just canning food and going, someday we're going to have a way to get into that.