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Geelong Meat Preserving Company (1871 - 1874)

Function: Food or Beverage Industry

Location: Geelong, Victoria, Australia

The Geelong Meat Preserving Company operated for a short time in the 1870s. By changing the geometry of the cans used they reduced over-cooking of products, an alteration which was soon adopted by other meat preserving companies.

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Location: Geelong, Victoria

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=A001071. [ Details ]

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