| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1810/08/25 | Peter Durand is granted patent No 3372 for preserving food in tin-coated iron cans. The original historic patent is kept in The National Archives in Kew, West London. | |
| 1861/00/00 | Isaac Solomon uses Davy's calcium chloride process at a tomato-canning plant on Chestnut Street, cutting sterilization and cooking time from 5 to 6 hours to 25 to 40 minutes and increasing factory output from 2,500 cans a day to over 20,000 cans a day. | Canton Historic District, Baltimore, MD |
| 1865/00/00 | Flush with the financial success and technical mastery of this rapid-canning technique, Solomon opens a hyper-efficient oyster cannery Sandy Island, now known as Solomons Island. | Solomons, MD, Maryland |
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