Denis Papin was a French Huguenot physicist, mathematician and inventor and a Fellow of the Royal Society, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker, and for early work on the steam engine, the centrifugal pump and a submersible boat. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The prototype of the modern pressure cooker was the steam digester invented in the seventeenth century by the physicist Denis Papin.
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