Section of a steam turbine, Museo de la Energía, Ponferrada, Spain

9 Who is the inventor of the pressure cooker?

Exercise

We probably have a pressure cooker in our kitchen. It is an airtight container that increases the cooking speed of some foods, reducing the time needed for their preparation and saving energy. Pressure cooking is the process of cooking food under high pressure steam and water or a water-based cooking liquid. 

Who was the inventor of the pressure cooker?


Questions for  open discussion

  • Who invented the pressure cooker?

    Why is the temperature of the water in the pressure cooker higher than that of the water in a casserole open to the atmosphere?

    Was the steam engine the genius invention of a single engineer?

    What role did scientific societies or National Academies play in the advancement of science and technology during the 17th and 18th centuries?

    How were scientific discoveries made known in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

    In which scientific disciplines did Denis Papin, Christiaan Huygens, Gottfried Leibniz, and Robert Boyle excel?