Container

The development of food storage containers was "of immense importance to the evolving human populations", and "was a totally innovative behavior" not seen in other primates.

[12] The Romans learned glass-making from the Phoenicians and produced many extant examples of fine glass bottles, mostly relatively small.

[13] In 1810, Frenchman Philippe de Girard came to London and used British merchant Peter Durand as an agent to patent his own idea for a process for making tin cans.

[14] The canning concept was based on experimental food preservation work in glass containers the year before by the French inventor Nicholas Appert.

In addition, a good container will have convenient and legible labeling locations, a shape that is conducive to efficient stacking and storing, and easy recycling at the end of its useful life.

Simple containers made from gourds being sold for use as calabash in Kenya .
Display of a woven basket from the Maya peoples of Mexico.
A spine car with a 6 metres (20 ft) tank container and an open-top intermodal shipping container with canvas cover.
Intermediate bulk containers, commonly used in industrial settings for the handling, transport, and storage of liquids, semi-solids, pastes, or solids.