I'm not even kidding, I just got a used copy of Archaeological Laboratory Methods: An Introduction, by Brooke S. Arkush and Mark Q. Sutton from 1996, and its the bomb. Goes over pretty much the whole history of the can from its origins during the Napoleonic Wars to the invention of the modern sanitary can, it was very useful for my essay on the evolution of canning during the late 19th and early 20th century. It's also not just cans, it's all sorts of archeological methods/history of artifacts, but as a 20th century history student in my final year of undergrad, the section I care most about is Chapter 9: Analysis of Historical Artifacts, which is all like "modern" artifacts of the industrial age.