In 1858, American inventor Ezra Warner patented a can opener, replacing the hammer-and-chisel method for the US Army and grocers

Canning began in 1795, sparked by a French inventor who aimed to create food preservation solutions for military purposes. By 1858, a Connecticut businessman had patented an early can opener, designed ...
GamesIndustry

Jason Citron's Hammer & Chisel raises funding from Tencent, Benchmark

Hammer & Chisel, the tablet-focused developer headed up by OpenFeint founder Jason Citron, has raised an undisclosed sum of funding from Tencent and Benchmark Capital. A previous funding round ...
VentureBeat

Fates Forever mobile game maker Hammer & Chisel raises funding from Benchmark and Tencent

Hammer & Chisel, the maker of the iPad game Fates Forever, has raised a second round of funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark Capital and China’s giant gaming and Internet company ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Hammer & Chisel raises $20 million for gamer messaging app Discord

2014 was the year we were all taking about the explosive growth of mobile messaging channels such as LINE, WhatsApp, WeChat and Kakao. Since then, however, the market has fragmented with new networks ...
The Washington Examiner

Climate activists bring hammer and chisel in attempt to break glass protecting Magna Carta

Environmental activists damaged the glass casing of the original Magna Carta with a hammer and chisel as part of a protest. Two activists with the Just Stop Oil group, identified as the Rev. Sue ...