Military Point of View of Appertisation

Nicolas François Appert (1750 - 1841), brother of Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert, was the French inventor of airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the "father of canning," was a confectioner.

In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte offered a 12,000 franc reward to anyone who could devise a method for the food preservation in order to provide his troops with daily rations in order to keep his armies adequately supplied while on the march.

After years of experimentation, Appert submitted his invention and won the prize in 1809. The following year, Appert published L'Art de conserver les substances animales et végétales (or The Art of Preserving Animal and Vegetable Substances for Many Years). This was the first cookbook of its kind on modern food preservation methods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Fran%C3%A7ois_Appert

Isn't amazing how our first canned food was invented. We needed it for our survival during war, and Wala! That how the first incanned sterilisation food was invented.

Nicholas appert was no great scientist, but still he created the important product in the world. So I should say, everyone have bright sparks