A New Digester or Engine for Softning Bones : Containing the Description of Its Make and Use in These Particulars : Viz. Cookery, Voyages At Sea, Confectionary, Making of Drinks, Chymistry, and Dying

Denis Papin

Published by London : Printed by J.M. for Henry Bonwicke, 1681

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[8], 52 p. : ill. Bound in fine modern brown leather. Gilt lettering on front cover. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages with some tanning. Marginal chipping and loss to title page and final page. Title page and final page reinforced. New end pages. Frontispiece and folding plates are absent. Wing P309 & P308. Ships daily. Denis Papin was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester. The steam digester (or bone digester, and also known as Papins digester) is a high-pressure cooker invented by French physicist Denis Papin in 1679. It is a device for extracting fats from bones in a high-pressure steam environment, which also renders them brittle enough to be easily ground into bone meal. It is the forerunner of the autoclave and the domestic pressure cooker. The steam-release valve, which was invented for Papin's digester following various explosions of the earlier models, inspired the development of the piston-and-cylinder steam engine. Wing P309, P308. Seller Inventory # 1404290001

Bibliographic Details

Title: A New Digester or Engine for Softning Bones ...

Publisher: London : Printed by J.M. for Henry Bonwicke

Publication Date: 1681

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good