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); [syn: Donkin, Bryan Donkin]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Bryan Donkin
n 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) [syn: Donkin,
Bryan Donkin]