Kilner jar Kilner jar A Kilner jar is a rubber-sealed, screw-topped jar used for preserving (bottling) food. It was first produced by John Kilner & Co., Yorkshire, England. The Kilner Jar was originally made by a firm of glass bottlemakers from Yorkshire called Kilner. The original Kilner bottlemakers operated from 1842, when the company was first founded, until 1937, when the company went into bankruptcy. The Kilner Company was taken to court in 1871 over the coal smoke coming from their Thornhill Lees chimneys and the judge ordered that "no man has the right to interfere with the supply of pure air".
Olivier de Weck Olivier de Weck Olivier L. de Weck (born 1968) is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an Adjunct Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He has authored and co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is a Fellow of the INCOSE and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. de Weck serves as the editor-in-chief for "Systems Engineering", the leading journal of INCOSE. He is best known for contributions to the field of Systems Engineering in multidisciplinary design optimization, space logistics, and "ilities". de Weck earned a Dipl.