INVENTOR OF CANNED FOODS
Thre are very few foods which are not obtainable in cans. We take tinned foods as a matter of course. Who have we to thank for the idea of having food in tins? Not a Marconi or an Edison, but someone of whom most people have never heard before. His name was Nicolas Appert. Napoleon set out to conquer to Europe, but found that he had great difficulty in supplying food to his armies. It is very true fact that an army “marches on its stomach” and Napoleon’s was no exception. So Napoleon offered a reward of 12,000 francs to anyone who could devise a way of carrying and keeping fresh food —keeping it preserved for as long as was necessary. Nicolas Appert, a Frenchman, won the prize, by inventing the idea of tinned or canned food. Perhaps Napoleon would never have reached so high a pedestal had it not been for Nicolas Appert.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 February 1940, Page 5
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