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Denis Papin FRS was a French Huguenot physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker, the steam engine, the centrifugal pump, and a submersible boat.
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science · French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713) · mathematician · physicist · inventor · university teacher · engineer · physician · also Denis Papin, Papin
Born 22 August 1647 · Died 26 August 1713 · Q106208
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A record for the burial of a “Denys Papin” was discovered in an 18th-century Register of Marriages & Burials, It originally came from St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, but is stored in the London Metropolitan Arch
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By Louis Figuire held that this ship was steam-powered (paddlesteamer) rather than hand-powered and that it was therefore the first steam-powered vehicle of any kind
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“Notes on Professor Robison's Dissertation on Steam-engines”
Died 1713-08-26.
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“A New Method of Obtaining Very Great Moving Powers at Small Cost”
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1680).
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Studied at University of Angers (1661–1669).
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Studied at Academy of Saumur (1661).
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Born 1647-08-22.
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