The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can

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Every year nearly a half trillion of these cans are manufactured—that’s about 15,000 per second — so many that we overlook the can’s superb engineering. Let’s start with why the can is shaped like it is. Why a cylinder? An engineer might like to make a spherical can: it has the smallest surface area for a given volume and so it uses the least amoun... Read More