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And it all started with Nicolas Appert. > In 1795 the French military offered a cash prize of 12,000 francs for a new method to preserve food. After some 14 or
by chiph 9y ago
And it all started with Nicolas Appert.
> In 1795 the French military offered a cash prize of 12,000 francs for a new method to preserve food. After some 14 or 15 years of experiment, Appert submitted his invention and won the prize in January 1810 on condition that he make the method public
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Appert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Appert
- kilroy123 9y agoJust curious, how much money is this in today's dollars (or Euros)?
- chiph 9y agoThe online calculator I found only goes back to the middle of 1901, so 12,000 FF back then is worth about 47,110 Euros today. Going back earlier than 1901 would require some interesting historic research. But a guess would be that it would have been serious money.
- elnate 9y agoIf it helps at all, enough to build a canning factory according to Wikipedia. > Unfortunately for Appert, the factory which he had built with his prize money was razed in 1814 by Allied soldiers when they entered France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning#French_Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning#French_Origins