Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior, 1890 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : United States; Office of Indian Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2015-08-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 133219429X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781332194292 |
Rating | : 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior, 1890 The first authentic information we have in regard to the canning of hermetically sealed goods dates back to the first part of the present century, 1810, when a work was written on the subject by Appert, and published by authority of the French government. Successful experiments had already been made in this direction, but we owe to Appert the discovery and clear exposition of the principles that underlie the beautiful processes of what has grown into one of the most important of modern industries. But conceding to the discoverer of this great industry all the honor we owe him, we must note that there have been so many improvements on his methods that his book is now of little use to the practical canner, and is interesting chiefly as a bit of history. But little progress was made until 1825, when Thos. Kensett and Ezra Daggett obtained a patent from the United States on an improvement in the art of preserving. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.