Food in tin cans was first produced in Britain in 1812 by Donkin and Hall of London. They canned beef, mutton, vegetable stew, soups and carrots. These goods were very useful to the explorers of the day.
In the late 1800s, William Charles Ball and his brothers got into the food preservation jar business and began buying up smaller companies. They quickly became leaders in the industry.
Alexander Kerr invented the easy-to-fill wide-mouth canning jar in 1903 (an innovation that the Ball brothers quickly duplicated). Later, in 1915, Kerr developed the idea of a metal lid with a permanently attached gasket that a man named Julius Landsberger had invented. Kerr came up with a metal disk with a similar gasket, held in place by a threaded metal ring. The modern 2-piece canning lid was born.
Canning technology continues to develop. Brands such as Quattro Stagioni use single piece canning lids that work similarly to the older 2-piece canning lid design.
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