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John Landis Mason (c. 1832 in Vineland, New Jersey – February 26, 1902) was an American tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for antique fruit jars that have come to be known as Mason jars. Many such jars were printed with the line "Mason's Patent Nov 30th 1858". [1]
Photo, Print, Drawing [John Landis Mason, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, alongside stack of Mason jars] [ digital file from b&w film copy neg. ] Full online access to this resource is only available at the Library of Congress.
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Nov 29, 2019 · On November 30, National Mason Jar Day commemorates an ingenious invention that’s been bringing families together for generations. While food preservation has existed for centuries, John Landis ...
Aug 26, 2020 · It all started with John Landis Mason, a New Jersey-born tinsmith who, in the 1850s, was searching for a way to improve the relatively recent process of home canning. Up until then, home...
Aug 16, 2014 · In 1858, John Landis Mason found a way to preserve fruits, vegetables and other perishables when he devised a lid that screwed to the threaded-glass lip of a jar over a rubber ring that...
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John Landis Mason set out to make threads at the top of a glass jar to allow a metal cap to be screwed down, forming an air tight seal. Mason was a tinsmith by trade and owned a metal shop on Canal Street.
