Talk:Walter John Kilner

This article should be drastically revised or deleted

As a long time Wikipedian, I find the existence of this article in its current form deeply disturbing. It is patently obvious that this guy was engaging in pseudoscience (there is no plausible scientific basis for his claimed discoveries). However, this article is written in a way that appears to give it legitimacy and is fueling conspiracy theories regarding "dicyanin" online. Alsosaid1987 (talk) 06:01, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

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Would anyone like to work with me on expanding this article? Royalhistorian (talk) 10:24, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Kilner jar

Talk:Kilner_jar mentions WJK as the inventor of the Kilner jar. If true, it seems like it might be worth referring to here.--Wcoole (talk) 22:38, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure whether they're the same Kilners. Walter John Kilner was born in 1847, while the company opened in 1842. This means he can't have been the original John Kilner Sr. His four sons split the company after his death in 1857 (WJK would only have been 10 years old), their names were John Jr., Caleb, George, and William. John Jr.'s son was named Barron Kilner (1852), but I have found no reference to Walter John Kilner.

"The jars were made from ca. 1910 to the present (2016). The beginning date may have been chosen as the approximate time that the factories had wide-mouth machines; however, as noted above,the firm had adopted American Blue machines in 1900 – probably a better beginning date."

See The Kilner Glass Companies - Society for Historical Archaeology https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/KilnerGlass.pdf Enix150 (talk) 22:22, 31 October 2019 (UTC)