As with numerous innovations, Nicolas Appert's food-preservation method, canning, was invented for military purposes. View Slideshow 1749: Nicolas Appert is born. He will invent the modern ...

National Canning Day celebrates canning as well as Nicolas Appert, the father of canning, who was born on today's date in 1752. In 1795, the French government, while under the leadership of Napoleon, ...

My wife's been "appertising" again. Appertising is the original name for preserving food by sealing out oxygen. Today we call it canning. However, it was called appertising because it was invented by ...

In the 1800s, expanding empires and seafaring explorations required reliablely preserved food. A candy maker was awarded 12,000 francs for his method of heating and sealing food in glass jars. The ...