Nicolas Appert was born Nov 17th, 1794 in Champagne France, and is known as the “Father of Canning” due to his invention in the early 1800s. His original technique for food preservation involved wine bottles, because of their accessibility in Champagne, France. The top of the bottle was sealed with a cork and a layer of wax. His invention was put to the test in 1803 by the French Navy.
It wasn’t until 1904 that the Max Ams Machine Company patented the modern double seam method of canning that we see today. Today, modern machines allow factories to seal over 2,000 cans per minute.