Napoleonic wars – Canning
Since prehistoric times, humans have found multiple ways to make food last longer like drying, salting, smoking, and drying, but humanity has yet to find a method to preserve food in a state where it is nearly fresh, not until the late 1800s. The French directory, which was concerned about the military’s food supply because their soldiers were fighting in distant countries and are in constant need of rations, therefore, thinking that something had to be done in order for their forces to have a stable supply of food, they offered to award 12,000 francs to the person who can provide a solution to this problem.
Nicholas Appert won this award 14 years later, he developed a new technique called canning. This allows the food to be preserved in a nearly…