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This article will be released in full online February 26, 2023. Mauricio Betancourt reviews Marcello Musto’s The Last Years of Karl Marx. In the book…

When is National Tin Can Day? History, significance, how to celebrate and more about the January 19 holiday

Napoleon needed to feed his armies. Nicolas Appert had a method of preserving eel, blackberries, and more. Here's how he helped commercialize canning.

Napoleon needed to feed his armies. Nicolas Appert had a method of preserving eel, blackberries, and more. Here's how he helped commercialize canning.

The stoic can of corned beef in your cupboard may be in periphery of your meal plan. But, this guide will help you understand how to use this ubiquitous food.

Tin cans have, in 200 years, changed the way the world eats. But a Victorian cheap meat scandal nearly destroyed them.

Copy of a letter appearing in Vol30, Page 334, 2 April 1914: The History of the "M.E." Model Beam Engine. To THE EDITOR OF The Model Engineer. DEAR SIR, -It may interest Mr. Gentry and yourself that I can fill up the lacuna in the history of the model beam engine. In 1858, Mr. W. Farey, manager to Messrs. Bryan Donkin Bros. (since and Co.), of Bermondsey, engineers and millwrights, designed a beam engine to drive the works, replacing two old sun and planet engines of old type. Mr. Oakley then w...