Denis Papin, the inventor of 'a new digester or engine for softening bones’, was a benefactor of humanity whose scientific and culinary achievements have long gone unsung. Denis Papin discovered ...

Its inception, however, goes to the invention of a ‘steam digester’, the brainchild of French physicist Denis Papin. Papin was born on August 22, 1647, in Chitenay, France, and went on to ...