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Letter: Letter

Published 21 November 1998

From Julian Barker

The subject of the invention of canning and the subsequent invention of the
can opener was discussed recently in The Guardian’s Notes and Queries
column. The items are preserved on the paper’s website: http://nq.guardian.co.uk/

julian@rodent.demon.co.uk

Issue no. 2161 published 21 November 1998

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