Codice albumGBB-F-007660

Codice inventarioGBB-F-007660-0000

1840 ca, FRANCE: The french inventor NICOLAS François Charles APPERT (1749-1841). Engraved portrait by Blanchard pubblishe in 1843. Inventor of airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the" father of canning", was a confectioner.In 1795 the French Napoleone Bonaparte military service offered a cash prize of 12,000 francs for a new method to preserve food. After some 14 or 15 years of experiment, Appert submitted his invention and won the prize in January 1810 on condition that he make the method public; the same year, Appert published" L'Art de conserver les substances animales et végétales" (The Art of Preserving Animal and Vegetable Substances). This was the first cookbook of its kind on modern food preservation methods. in the town of Massy, near Paris, became the first food bottling factory in the world, years before Louis Pasteur proved that heat killed bacteria. Appert patented his invention and established a business to preserve a variety of food in sealed bottles

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