ABSTRACT
A year later Peter Durand, an Englishman, invented the "tin canister," and when William Unde1wood migrated from England to Boston in 1817, he brought the beginnings of the U.S. canning industry with him, although he used glass jars [1] . The first U.S. appearance of preserved food in cans is credited to Thomas Kennsett, another British transplant, and his father-inlaw Ezra Daggett, who formed a partnership in New York in 1819 [2].
