Robert Yeates

Can opener according to Robert Yeates

Robert Yeates [ ˈɹɒ.bət ˈjeɪts ] ( listen ^?^/^I ) was a British inventor and manufacturer of cutlery and surgical tools .

Life

Yeates was located at Trafalgar Place West, Hackney Road, Middlesex . He invented the 1855 opener and reported in 1858 in the United Kingdom a patent depends - some 45 years after the tin can was invented.

Individual evidence

↑ Richard Archibald Brooman (ed.): The Mechanics' Magazine. Ed. 63, Robertson, Brooman & Co., London 1855. P. 141 ( online )
↑ Fritz Jörn: History of the can opener. Had sheet metal. FAZ. March 1, 2014. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
↑ Pennie Stoyles, Peter Pentland: The A to Z of Inventions and Inventors. C to F. Black Rabbit Books, 2006, ISBN 978-1-583408-056 , p. 6 ( online )

personal data
SURNAME	Yeates, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British inventor
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1855
DATE OF DEATH	after 1858

[brooman-1] Richard Archibald Brooman (ed.): The Mechanics' Magazine. Ed. 63, Robertson, Brooman & Co., London 1855. P. 141 ( online )

[faz-2] Fritz Jörn: History of the can opener. Had sheet metal. FAZ. March 1, 2014. Retrieved January 24, 2016.

[stoyles-3] Pennie Stoyles, Peter Pentland: The A to Z of Inventions and Inventors. C to F. Black Rabbit Books, 2006, ISBN 978-1-583408-056 , p. 6 ( online )