Denis Papin
1647-1712
French physicist and inventor who developed several useful devices using steam as the source of power.
These devices included a steam-powered version of Thomas Savery's pump used for de-watering mine shafts, the first engine to use steam as the motive force, and the "steam digester," a forerunner to today's pressure cooker, in which pressurized steam is used to speed cooking times.
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