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Letter: Letter

Published 21 November 1998

From Robert Day

You ask how tin cans were opened before the invention of the can opener. The
boringly simple answer is “with a knife”. My mother reports seeing a work
colleague of hers in the early 1940s who still opened cans with a carving
knife.

Fillongley, Coventry

Issue no. 2161 published 21 November 1998

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