Canning novelty. Early methods of manufacture employed poisonous lead solder for sealing the cans. Studies in the 1980s attributed the lead from the cans as a factor in the disastrous outcome of the 1845 Franklin expedition to chart and navigate the Northwest Passage. Later studies found this to be false. Increasing mechanization of the canning process, coupled with a huge increase in urban populations across Europe, resulted in a rising demand for canned food. A number of inventions and improvements followed, and by the 1860s smaller machine-made steel cans were possible, and the time to cook food in sealed cans had
Less Than Zero (song) the plan to switch songs, inspired by a live performance on the BBC's "The Lulu Show" in 1969 in which Jimi Hendrix had scrapped a performance of Hey Joe after a few bars to instead play an impromptu tribute to Cream, who had broken up just days before. "Less Than Zero" appears on the first Stiff Records compilation; "A Bunch of Stiff Records", whilst the B-side, "Radio Sweetheart", appears on their second; "Hits Greatest Stiffs". Less Than Zero (song) "Less Than Zero" is the eighth track on Elvis Costello's debut album "My Aim Is True", and the first Costello single