San Francisco / Buffalo / Paris / Philadelphia / Toledo / Muncie / Pittsburgh / Glassboro / New York city / Clyde / Bennington / New York / Crowleytown / /
Company
A. & D. H. Chambers Company / Hazel-Atlas Glass Company / Consolidated Fruit Jar Company / Hermetic Fruit Jar Company / Arte / Ball Company / Thomas Dyott / Sheet Metal Screw Company / Three Rivers Glass Company / Acorn Press / /
Continent
America / /
Country
India / Russia / /
Currency
USD / franc / / /
Event
Force Majeure / Man-Made Disaster / M&A / /
Facility
University of California College of Agriculture / /
IndustryTerm
food spoilage / rubber ring / called cement / free gas / natural gas / un-sterilized food / Colonial bottle maker / food contact / food / threaded metal ring / metal / food preparer / chemical agent / metal clamps / bare metal / metal cans / chemicals / food restaurants / steel / hired other glass makers / metal lid / large yoke-shaped cast metal clamp holds / metal containers / oil / rubber gasket / electricity / wholesome food / food preparers / food reacting / prolific producer / flat metal disk / food restaurant / food preservation / cement / chemical / cement jar / home-canned food / garden food / /
Organization
University of California College of Agriculture / US Federal Reserve / Midwest Antique Fruit Jar and Bottle Club / Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors / Farm Security Administration / office of War Information / Midwest Fruit Jar and Bottle Club / /
Person
Julius Landsberger / George Alexander / Julian Toulouse / John L. Mason / Douglas M. Leybourne / Jr. / Lewis R. Boyd / Henry William Putnam / Nicholas Appert / John M. Whitall / Alexander H. Kerr / Louis Pasteur / William Charles Ball / Dick Roller / Alex Kerr / Robert Arthur / Napoleon / Lucius / Adam R. Samuel / Doug Leybourne / Charles de Quillfeldt / Dave Hinson / Edmund Burke / Rick Reinking / Junne Barnett / Kevin Sives / /
A Primer on Fruit Jars by Dave Hinson. (Originally published in the December 1996 edition of Bottles and Extras.) COPYRIGHT 1996 BY DAVE HINSON HOW IT ALL BEGAN The discovery that fed our troops became the discovery that