How the Donner Party Inspired Food Packaging

Professor Bill Hammack (aka Engineer Guy) explains how the Donner Party — the ill-fated pioneer wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevadas in 1846 — inspired modern food packaging in this fascinating illustrated audio short that originally aired on NPR in 2004.

E.D.W. Lynch
E.D.W. Lynch

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