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2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195815 |
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- <p>Founded in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1892, the Crown Cork & Seal Company was created to manufacture the ”crown cork” — a revolutionary metal bottle cap invented in the city by William Painter and one of the world’s first mass-produced disposable products. The invention was immensely successful; by the 1920s, the company was supplying half the world’s bottle caps, producing billions annually. Its factory became one of the largest manufacturing plants in the United States — a city within a city.</p>