Bright Sparcs
Biographical entry
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Spawn, A. F. |
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A. F. Spawn introduced dehydration as a form of food preservation in 1886 when he developed his Climax Fruit Evaporator to process excess apples in southern Tasmania. It has since been acknowledged to have been the beginning of mechanical dehydration. |
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