The Curse of All detectorists

Hobojo

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The Curse of All detectorist's

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Iron City, the Pittsburgh-based brewery, became the first producer of beer to use new pull-tab technology. In 1962, they introduced the can you see above. Created by an engineer who, legend has it, found himself at a picnic with beer but no church key, the pull tab was a flat piece of metal riveted to the top of the can that you pulled off to reveal the graduated flask-shaped hole from which you drank. Schlitz soon followed suit, incorporating the pull tab into cans before the year was out. By June, 1963, 40 breweries were using pull-tabs.

We need to find this guy and mail him all the pulltabs we dig!
 

Ouch! Im sorry to read that and Im sure his heart was in the right place!
Im sure he must have done some really useful engineering in his life time .
May he rest in peace.
 

Wonder how much money he made overall from it. Or was he like the guy that invented the game "operation" who was just on the news seeking money for an actual operation because he sold the idea too cheap
 

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