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Napoleon Bonaparte the first customer ! |
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The history of packaging could not be complete without paying deserved tribute to the Tincans.
In the late 18th century, Napoleon’s army, which had suffered more from malnutrition than by actual combat, offered 12,000 francs, to anyone who could develop a way to preserve food for the military on the battlefield.
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A French confectioner, Nicolas Appert, after 15 years of research, took home the prize in 1809. He discovered that the application of heat to food in sealed cans preserved the food from deterioration.
Based on Nicholas Appert’s method of food preservation the packaging of food in sealed airtight tinplated wrought -iron cans was first patented by an Englishman, Peter Durand, in 1810.
Beginning 1814, canned foods were sent to distant British colonies and were greatly favoured. Demand of Tincans grew exponentially during world war -II
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