I’ve been researching the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and I got curious about writing desks. They’ve evolved quite a bit over the past two hundred years, from this:To this:Yeah, that’s my treadmill desk. Not that my desk represents… Read More
Canned food, in heavy iron cans, was invented for the British Navy in 1813. But can openers were not invented until the 1860s. Before then, people opened cans with a hammer and chisel.
source: The Boy Who Invented the Popsicle, by Don L. Wulffson