Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647-1713) · France · Scientists · Died at 66
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Something wrong?He built the ancestor of the pressure cooker in 1679, then spent three decades chasing a working steam engine across three countries while religious exile closed every door. The physics worked. The timing didn't.
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, I have endeavoured to attain this end (viz. the production of a vacuum in the cylinder) in another way.
What I say here is not to give room for believing, that Mr. Savery, who has since published this invention at London, is not actually the inventor.
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Denis Papin was born in France on 22 August 1647, trained in physics and mathematics, and by 1675 had emigrated to London, where his work earned him a place on the staff of the Royal Society by 1684. His signature invention, the steam digester - a sealed vessel that used steam pressure to cook food and pointed toward the principles of the steam engine - arrived years before the world knew what to do with it. In 1685 the Edict of Fontainebleau revoked tolerance for Huguenots, stripping him of French citizenship and any path home. He moved to the University of Marburg in 1687, holding a mathematics professorship until 1707, then returned to England for his final five years. He died in poverty on 26 August 1713, and his burial site went unrecorded for 303 years.
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