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Denis Papin

Huguenot inventor of the steam digester and early steam engine.

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He also invented a model piston steam engine in 1690, the first of its kind.[1] Papin died in London and was buried at St Bride's Church on 26 August 1713.[2] Born on 22 August 1647 and dying on 26 August 1713, the French Huguenot Denis Papin was a physicist, mathematician, and inventor whose most famous creation was the steam digester, which preceded the pressure cooker.[3]

Life and work

Papin first visited London in 1675 due to increasing repression on Huguenots in France.[4] In about 1687, he left France to take up an academic post in Marburg, Germany.[5] In 1705, while teaching mathematics at the University of Marburg, he developed a second steam engine with help from Gottfried Leibniz.[1] From 1676 to 1679, Papin collaborated with Robert Boyle and released a description of his efforts in the 1680 publication Continuation of New Experiments.[4]

A proposal from Papin in 1689 involved using a force pump or bellows to keep a diving bell's interior pressurized and supplied with fresh air.[5] To travel back to London alongside his wife and children in 1705, Papin built a vessel that used hand-cranked paddles for propulsion.[6] According to accounts, boatmen from Munden destroyed Papin's vessel in 1707 because they worried it would take away their jobs.[7]

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The Smithsonian Institution Press published a 1986 book titled "Engines of Change" that covers the American Industrial Revolution from 1790 to 1860.[8][3] A 2016 discovery of a burial record for "Denys Papin" was found in an 18th-century Register of Marriages & Burials from St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London.[2] The discovered register indicates that Denys Papin was interred in the Lower Ground section, which was one of two burial zones the church maintained at that time.[2]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Denis Papin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: . (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Denis Papin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: London Metropolitan Archives; Collection: Saint Bride; Title: Register of Marriages Burrials &tc from 1695 to Aug 1714; catalogue reference: P69/BRI/A/005/MS065 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Denis Papin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: London Metropolitan Archives; Collection: Saint Bride; Title: Register of Marriages Burrials &tc from 1695 to Aug 1714; catalogue reference: P69/BRI/A/005/MS065; Excerpt from St Bride's Register Marriages Burrials; Hindle, "Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution 1790-1860", Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986; "Acta Eruditorum", 1689, p. 96 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Denis Papin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Anita McConnell, 'Papin, Denis (1647–1712?)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 29 April 2006] (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Denis Papin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Davis, RH, "Deep Diving and Submarine Operations", Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd, 1955, p. 693; Acott, "A brief history of diving and decompression illness.", South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal, 1999 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Denis Papin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Alonso Péan, Louis de La Saussaye: La vie et les ouvrages de Denis Papin. Franck, Paris 1869, S. 235 ff. (gallica.bnf.fr).; Capitel 14. Actenmäßiger Beweis, daß das erste Dampfschiff der Welt auf der Fulda von Cassel nach Münden gefahren und daselbst vernichtet wurde. In: Geschichte ; Wootton, David, "The Invention of Science", Harper Collins, 2015, p. 498,647 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Denis Papin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Valenti, "A Case Study of British Sabotage Leibniz, Papin, and The Steam Engine", Fusion, December 1979, p. 41; "Destruction of Papin's steamboat, 1707 - Stock Image - V900/0062", Science Photo Library; "Destruction of Denis Papin Steamboat,1707 Stock Photo - Alamy", www.alamy.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Open Library record, ISBN 0874745403 ("Engines of change"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org

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