Aluminium foil Tin foil has been supplanted by aluminium and other materials for wrapping food. The first audio recordings on phonograph cylinders were made on tin foil. Tin was first replaced by aluminium in 1910, when the first aluminium foil rolling plant, "Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie." was opened in Emmishofen, Switzerland. The plant, owned by J.G. Neher & Sons, the aluminium manufacturers, started in 1886 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, at the foot of the Rhine Falls, capturing the falls' energy to process aluminium. Neher's sons, together with Dr. Lauber, discovered the endless rolling process and the use of aluminium foil as a
Tin-Tin Kyrano Tin-Tin Kyrano Tin-Tin Kyrano is a fictional character introduced in the mid-1960s British Supermarionation television series "Thunderbirds". In the original TV series and its film sequels, the voice of the Tin-Tin puppet was provided by actress Christine Finn. In the remake series, due to copyright problems with Hergé's "The Adventures of Tintin", the character's name was changed to Tanusha 'Kayo' Kyrano. Sylvia Anderson, "Thunderbirds" co-producer and character co-creator, writes that Tin-Tin was conceived mainly to "redress the balance" of the "male-dominated" primary puppet cast. The character's name was derived from the Malaysian term for "". The Supermarionation puppet was sculpted