Denis Papin FRS (French pronunciation: [dəni papɛ̃]; 22 August 1647 – 26 August 1713) was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for...
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1705. Louis Figuier in his monumental work gives a full quotation of Denis Papin's paper published in 1690 in Acta eruditorum at Leipzig, entitled "Nouvelle...
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Blois (section Denis-Papin Staircase)
below the Denis Papin staircase (where was the former Town Hall before World War II); St. Jack Fountain (Fontaine Saint-Jacques), in rue Denis Papin; Corbigny...
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Steam digester (redirect from Papin's digester)
or bone digester (also known as Papin’s digester) is a high-pressure cooker invented by French physicist Denis Papin in 1679. It is a device for extracting...
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Look up papin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Papin is a surname, and may refer to: Christine Papin (1905–1937), French murderer Denis Papin (1647 –...
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al-Din's steam jack, a steam turbine in 16th-century Ottoman Egypt, Denis Papin's working model of the steam digester in 1679 and Thomas Savery's steam...
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Christine Papin (8 March 1905 – 18 May 1937) and Léa Papin (15 September 1911 – 24 July 2001) were two French sisters who, as live-in maids, were convicted...
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1879, although a precursor known as the steam digester was created by Denis Papin in 1679. The name comes from Greek auto-, ultimately meaning self, and...
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pressure cooker was invented in the seventeenth century by the physicist Denis Papin. It works by expelling air from the vessel and trapping steam produced...
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– Jean Regnault de Segrais, French author and poet (d. 1701) 1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712)...
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Gunpowder engine (section Huygens and Papin)
power in the gas pressure into any needed mechanical form. In 1671, Denis Papin was given a job at the Academy of the Royal Library in Paris, where he...
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early meetings included experiments performed first by Hooke and then by Denis Papin, who was appointed in 1684. These experiments varied in their subject...
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Charpentier in 2012. Taxi by Nicolas Sauvage in Paris in 1640. Steamboat by Denis Papin. A boat with the world's first internal combustion engine was developed...
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symptoms when returning to the surface, as the pressure was relieved. Denis Papin suggested in 1691 that the working time in a diving bell could be extended...
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in 1690 by the Frenchman Denis Papin to produce the first steam engine capable of raising water from deep mines. When Papin was back to London in 1707...
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Richard Trevithick. This use of the valve is possibly attributable to Denis Papin. Because the two L-shaped passages in the plug do not interconnect, the...
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boiled to produce a gel. By the late 17th century, the French inventor Denis Papin had discovered another method of gelatin extraction via boiling of bones...
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– Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (died 1717) August 22 – Denis Papin, French physicist (died c. 1712) December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian...
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Denis (Russian: Денис) is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: Saint Denis of Paris (3rd century), French bishop and Christian...
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anticipated by the work of Guillaume Amontons in 1702. Gay-Lussac's law (1802) Denis Papin, an associate of Boyle's, built in 1679 a bone digester, which is a closed...
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Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits) Daniel Marot Abraham de Moivre Denis Papin Duke of Schomberg Christianity portal France portal War of the Camisards...
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pushed the practical application of turbomachinery forward include: Denis Papin, Kernelien Le Demour, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, John Smeaton, Dr. A...
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inventions, including a water pump for draining inundated mines. Frenchman Denis Papin did some useful work on the steam digester in 1679, and first used a...
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engine, developed around 1712; combining the ideas of Thomas Savery and Denis Papin, he created a steam engine for the purpose of lifting water out of a...
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he was forced to go into partnership with due to Savery's patent, and Denis Papin, using his invention of a piston. It was the first practical application...
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their invention until the expiration of the patent in 1733. 1707 (1707): Denis Papin publishes a study on steam power, including a number of ideas. One uses...
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centrifugal pumps were not developed until the late 17th century, when Denis Papin built one using straight vanes. The curved vane was introduced by British...
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tubercle as the origin of tuberculosis. A centrifugal pump is invented by Denis Papin. Physician and collector Hans Sloane develops a milk chocolate drink...
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Sir Edmond Halley at a meeting of the Royal Society. French physicist Denis Papin, while in Leipzig and having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric...
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and the most powerful at the time. In 1789 Smeaton applied an idea by Denis Papin, by using a force pump to maintain the pressure and fresh air inside...
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