Illustration depicting Papin's steam engine (1707) for pumping water from mines. It was the first engine to use the safety valve he had invented twenty-seven years earlier for his 'digester'. (1647-1713) a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine. Dated 19th century

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