Oral history interview with Joseph A. Kissinger [electronic resource], 1975

Biographical Note

Administrative Assistant to General Manager.

Scope and Contents

Experience with early business machines 1920s; education in chemistry; work as lacquer and enamel formulator for paint company; laboratory assistant at Continental Can; rivalry and consolidation of research departments; Troyer-Fox engineering skills; West Coast fish canning; standardization, cooperation of can maker and salesman; research and development; work of Heller Associates; beer can research; manager of Manufacturing research Services; developments in tinplate and solder World War II; move to Baltimore plant; Research Center, Chicago.

Subjects

• Container industry--Equipment and supplies.
• Containers.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Kissinger, Joseph A.--Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• Research, Industrial.