Fowler's Vacola specialises in bottling jams and other foods at its manufacturing plant in Sydney. Fowler's Vacola The Fowler's Vacola jar is a molded glass jar used in canning to preserve food. It is the most popular home canning system in Australia. The system was developed in 1915 in Melbourne, Australia, by Joseph Fowler (28 February 1888 – 24 April 1972), who migrated from England in 1912, at his home in Hawthorn, Victoria, and became very popular. The Fowler's Vacola system uses glass jars, single use rubber ring seals and pressed metal lids, much like American Mason jars first patented in 1858,
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.