Population, discoveries and inventions
in the food sector
Name
1 Fire
2 Salt
Pop.
[bn]*
Year
-500000 ?
-10000 0.1
3 Porcelain
4 Coffee
700
850
Inventor
Homo erectus
Celts, Romans
0.21
0.24
Chinese
Muslims
5 Forks
1071
6 German purity law 1516
0.33
0.54
7 Pressure cookers
1679
0.56
Byzantine
Bavarian HerzogWilhelm IV
Denis Papin
8 Franklin stove
1742
0.94
Benjamin Franklin
7
Population [bn]
6
5
Name
Digestion
Pop.
Year [bn]*
1752 0.96
10 Canning food
1795 1.10
9
Inventor
René-Antoine Ferchault
de Réaumur
Nicolas-Francois Appert
11 Food classification 1827 1.27
into carb, fats, prot.
William Prout
12 Yeast cells
1838 1.33
13 Chymosin/Lab
14 Pasteurization
1840 1.39
1856 1.28
Charles Cagniard de la
Tour
J. Deschamps
Louis Pasteur
26 Techno-physio evolution
Robert William Fogel (*1926).
25 First GMO food
24 Radiation on food
The theory of technophysio evolution rests on the
proposition that during the past 300 years, particularly during
the past century, human beings have gained an
unprecedented degree of control over their environment –
degree of control so great that it sets them apart not only
from all other species, but also from all previous generations
of Homo sapiens. This new degree of control has enabled
Homo sapiens to increase its average body size by over 50
percent and its average longevity by more then 100 percent
since 1800, and to greatly improve the robustness and
capacity of vital organ systems.
23 Water activity
22 Microwave oven
21 Freeze-drying
20 Fast food
19 Citric acid cycle
18 Ascorbic acid
17 Maillard-Reaction
4
16 Beri-Beri
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895).
15 Refrigerators
Without theory, practice is but routine born of
habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop
the spirit of inventions.
3
14 Pasteurization
13 Chymosin/Lab
12 Yeast cells
2
11 Food classification
10 Canning food
9 Digestion
8 Franklin stove
7 Pressure cookers
Justus von Liebig ( 1803-1873).
Nothing is Impossible…., this is the core
secret behind every inventor’s work.
1
3 Porcelain
4 Coffee
5 Forks
6 German purity law
0
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
2000
Year
Name
15 Refrigerators
Pop.
Year [bn]* Inventor
1.32 Ferdinand Carré
1859
16 Beri-Beri
1897
1.71 Christiaan Eijkman
17 Maillard-Reaction 1912
1.97 Louis-Camille Maillard
18 Ascorbic acid
1930
2.30 Charles Glen King
19 Citric acid cycle
1937
2.70 Hans Adolf Krebs
20 Fast food
1940
2.12 McDonald’s Corporation
21 Freeze-drying
1968
2.12 Johannes Brouwer,
Jan Veldstra
* estimated
Name
Year
22 Mircrowave oven 1945
Pop.
[bn]* Inventor
2.30 Percy L. Spencer
23 Water activity - aw 1953
2.69
William. J. Scott
24 Radiation on food 1968
3.50
25 1st GMO food
1994
tomato - flavr savr
4.44
Nuclear Materials
Equipment Corporation
Monsanto (Calgene)
26 Techno-physio
evolution
6.38
Robert W. Fogel
2004
R.A.E. Mueller , F. Thiemann D. Bürgelt 2009.