🇫🇷 Cocorico! We owe the invention of the tin can 🥫 to a Frenchman, Nicolas Appert, in 1795.
This confectioner was the first to have the brilliant idea of using glass jars sealed with cork, to sterilize food without exposing it to air. And because he sensed the importance of this discovery, he refused to patent his invention and instead gave it to humanity.

This is a fine example of altruism that those who launched the famous tin can, which appeared in 1812 and still exists today, did not have!

More info: Conserve, l’histoire d’une grande idée.
 

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