The Can Or The Can Opener?

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Do you ever wonder or worry about stuff like cans and can openers? Just Another Bipod does, and it was decided to do a bit of research on this.
Why would anyone invented a can without a can opener already being in existence? Then again, why would anyone invent a can opener when there were no cans?

Peter Durand invented cans in 1810. One very noteworthy result of this was that canned food would last a long time. Just Another Bipod concurs. Without can openers anything stored in a can should last a mighty long time.

Canned food continued to accumulate until 1858 when Ezra Warner, possibly near starvation, invented the can opener. Global Honk was unable to discover what was in the first can that he opened. Ezra Warner's can opening device was not quite up to today's standards, but it did the trick.

Good old William Lyman did a bit of improvement on the can opener in 1870. William came up with a bit easier to use can opener. Then in 1925 the "modern" can opener (non-electric) was invented.