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Noun: Donkin
  1. English engineer who developed a method of preserving food by sterilizing it with heat and sealing it inside a steel container--the first tin can (1768-1855)
    - Bryan Donkin

Type of: applied scientist, engineer, technologist

Encyclopedia: Donkin, William

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