biography
| name: |
Appert, Nicolas François
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pronunciation:
[apair]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1752–1841)
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| biography:
| Chef and inventor, born in Châlons-sur-Marne, NE France. In 1795 he began experiments aimed at preserving food in hermetically sealed containers. His success, which earned him a French government prize in 1810, was due to his use of an autoclave for sterilization. He opened the world's first commercial preserved food factory in 1812, initially using glass jars and bottles, changing to tin-plated metal cans in 1822. |
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