In 1810 a British inventor invents the tin can. It's very thick at this time.
1813 the first canning factory is opened.
(early seals were made with lead, which we now knows led to lead poisoning.)
1822 William Underwood founded a canning company in Boston. You've probably seen the Underwood logo when you've purchased Deviled Ham. It wasn't until 1836 (another date I found was 1839) that he shifted from glass to steel cans coated with tin.
1846 a machine to make tin cans is invented. It produces sixty tin cans per hour. Prior to that the production of tin cans was 6 per hour.
1858 first can opener invented by Ezra Warner
1860 Baltimore canner Isaac Soloman added calcium chloride to the boiling water to sterilization and reduced the time from 5 to 6 hours to 30 minutes.
1861-1864 US military uses tin can during the Civil War
1866 patent for the tin can with a key opener is invented.
1870 an easier to use can opener is invented by William Lyman
1897 research found by Underwood's grandson and biologist from MIT that spores were contained in the meats canned and would cause the "swells" in the cans. They found that heat at 250 degrees for 10 minutes killed the spores. The process wasn't patented but worked.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Pineapples & Coffee
Personally, I love this fruit. But did you know that it originated from Brazil and Paraquay? Or did you know that Hawaii didn't have pineapples until 1813? That is the year the plant was introduced to the Islands of Hawaii. Many today would think it was a native fruit of Hawaii and it surprised me to find out that it wasn't. Hawaii kept this fruit to itself however, until 1892 when it was exported as a canned product.
James Dole did set up a plantation there that changed the growth rate of the fruit's exportation, unfortunately that wasn't until 1900-1901(I've found conflicting dates of when Dole actually started his plantation). Alfred W. Eame's (one of the California Homesteaders) arrives in Hawaii in 1898 and starts to experiment with the cultivation of the pineapple. His company eventually became Del Monte.
Don Francisco de Paula y Marin, Spanish advisor to King Kamehameha I, is the man noted for bringing the pineapple and coffee to Hawaii in 1813.
Unlike the Pineapple, Coffee became a commercial product in the 1830's.
James Dole did set up a plantation there that changed the growth rate of the fruit's exportation, unfortunately that wasn't until 1900-1901(I've found conflicting dates of when Dole actually started his plantation). Alfred W. Eame's (one of the California Homesteaders) arrives in Hawaii in 1898 and starts to experiment with the cultivation of the pineapple. His company eventually became Del Monte.
Don Francisco de Paula y Marin, Spanish advisor to King Kamehameha I, is the man noted for bringing the pineapple and coffee to Hawaii in 1813.
Unlike the Pineapple, Coffee became a commercial product in the 1830's.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Happy New Year!
It is 11:57 PM when I began typing out this blog post and it seemed appropriate to share some tidbits about this day from the 19th Century. I did however pause for a moment and join the neighbors outside as they wished Happy New Year with fireworks and children shouting.
In France and England it still subsists, although eclipsed in the latter country by the still more popular practice of Christmas gifts. In many countries, the night of New Year's Eve. 14 St Sylvester's Eve," was celebrated with great festivity, winch was prolonged till after 12 o'clock, when the New Year was ushered in with congratulations, complimentary visits, and mutual wishes for a happy New Year. This is an ancient Scottish custom, which also prevails in many parts bf Germany, where the form of wish— "Prosstffor the Lat, prosi'O-Neu-jahr"—"May the New Year be happy "—sufficiently attests the antiquity of the custom. In many places the practice or tolling bells at midnight, and thus "ringing in the New Year " is still observed. Many religious communions are wont to celebrate it with a special service. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Te Deum is still sung at the close of the old year; and New-Year's Day is a holiday of strict obligation.
Source: Chamber's New Handy Volume American Encyclopaedia.©1885
NEW YEAR'S DAY,
The celebration of New Year's Day is preserved in this country as a rural festival. Gifts are made to children, servants, and dependants, called New Year'sGifts. Mr. Bourne quotes what Stillingfleet says, "That among the Saxons of the northern nations, the feast of the new year was observed with more than ordinary jollity;" and, from Hospinian, says, " It was an ancient custom of the heathens, and afterwards practised by the Christians." Servants were exempt from their labour, and partook of the feast and rural sports with their masters: they were presented with tokeus of approbation and favour. On certain festivals the Romans gave pieces of money to travellers and strangers who were present at the sacrifice. On our day of festivity, mirth is excited by a rustic masquerading and playing tricks in disguise: the hide of the ox slain for the winter cheer, is often put on, and the person, thus attired, attempts to shew the character of the devil, by every horrible device in his power. All the winter sports seem to express a strong opinion of the ancients, that genii of very contrary natures prevailed on earth, that the one was constantly concomitant to light as the other was to darkness; and this image of the devil, which is frequently permitted to expel the inhabitants and take possession of the house, is typical of the power of the evil genius, in the season when the sun is longest absent from our hemisphere. This corresponds with the lamentation used by those who held the Elusinian mysteries, and mourned for Adonis. It is very difficult to make any probable determination to what people we owe these customs. In the Roman Saturnalia and Sigillaria, this kind of frolicking was practised. Among the observations made by Mr. Brand on Bourne's XIV Chap, he remarks, that there was an ancient custom for young women to go about with a wassail bowl, that is, "a bowl of spiced ale" on new year's eve, with some sort of verses that were sung by them in going from door to door, Wassail is derived from the Anglo Sax. Waep. Hael. that is, " Be in health,"
Source: The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure ©1813
Below is a short story of New Year's Day.
New Year's Day: A Winter Tale ©1846
In France and England it still subsists, although eclipsed in the latter country by the still more popular practice of Christmas gifts. In many countries, the night of New Year's Eve. 14 St Sylvester's Eve," was celebrated with great festivity, winch was prolonged till after 12 o'clock, when the New Year was ushered in with congratulations, complimentary visits, and mutual wishes for a happy New Year. This is an ancient Scottish custom, which also prevails in many parts bf Germany, where the form of wish— "Prosstffor the Lat, prosi'O-Neu-jahr"—"May the New Year be happy "—sufficiently attests the antiquity of the custom. In many places the practice or tolling bells at midnight, and thus "ringing in the New Year " is still observed. Many religious communions are wont to celebrate it with a special service. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Te Deum is still sung at the close of the old year; and New-Year's Day is a holiday of strict obligation.
Source: Chamber's New Handy Volume American Encyclopaedia.©1885
NEW YEAR'S DAY,
The celebration of New Year's Day is preserved in this country as a rural festival. Gifts are made to children, servants, and dependants, called New Year'sGifts. Mr. Bourne quotes what Stillingfleet says, "That among the Saxons of the northern nations, the feast of the new year was observed with more than ordinary jollity;" and, from Hospinian, says, " It was an ancient custom of the heathens, and afterwards practised by the Christians." Servants were exempt from their labour, and partook of the feast and rural sports with their masters: they were presented with tokeus of approbation and favour. On certain festivals the Romans gave pieces of money to travellers and strangers who were present at the sacrifice. On our day of festivity, mirth is excited by a rustic masquerading and playing tricks in disguise: the hide of the ox slain for the winter cheer, is often put on, and the person, thus attired, attempts to shew the character of the devil, by every horrible device in his power. All the winter sports seem to express a strong opinion of the ancients, that genii of very contrary natures prevailed on earth, that the one was constantly concomitant to light as the other was to darkness; and this image of the devil, which is frequently permitted to expel the inhabitants and take possession of the house, is typical of the power of the evil genius, in the season when the sun is longest absent from our hemisphere. This corresponds with the lamentation used by those who held the Elusinian mysteries, and mourned for Adonis. It is very difficult to make any probable determination to what people we owe these customs. In the Roman Saturnalia and Sigillaria, this kind of frolicking was practised. Among the observations made by Mr. Brand on Bourne's XIV Chap, he remarks, that there was an ancient custom for young women to go about with a wassail bowl, that is, "a bowl of spiced ale" on new year's eve, with some sort of verses that were sung by them in going from door to door, Wassail is derived from the Anglo Sax. Waep. Hael. that is, " Be in health,"
Source: The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure ©1813
Below is a short story of New Year's Day.
New Year's Day: A Winter Tale ©1846
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