Papin's Digester
notes: label: Description
content: Denis Papin, a French scientist working with Robert Boyle in England, designed a high-pressure cooker in 1679. In time, that device became known as Papin’s Digester. The "Fabre & Kunemann, Succ'rs de Pixii, Paris" inscription on this example refers to a firm that was in business by the mid-1850s, making apparatus for physics and chemistry.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Santa Clara
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.325974
label: catalog number
content: 325974
label: accession number
content: 256489
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Papin's Digester
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: cylinder: 8 in x 5 in; 20.32 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 14 1/2 in x 8 in; 40.64 cm x 36.83 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 14 in; 41.5925 cm x 20.0025 cm x 35.56 cm