You can thank John Landis Mason for that, a New Jersey tinsmith and inventor born in 1832. Mason invented and patented the beloved mason jar in 1858, the first of its kind: a glass jar with a ...
It was then that John Landis Mason, then only 26 years old ... However, if there's one problem to take away from the general design of a mason jar, it's that the wide-mouthed rim can make it ...