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Donkin

noun
1.
English engineer who developed a method of preserving food by sterilizing it with heat and sealing it inside a steel container--the first tin can (1768-1855).  Synonym: Bryan Donkin.






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"Donkin" Quotes from Famous Books



... common among criminals, and the most hopeless and typical, though fortunately rare, kind of criminal, frequently termed a "moral imbecile," is nothing more than a feeble-minded person whose defect is shown not so much in his intelligence as in his feelings and his conduct. Sir H.B. Donkin, who speaks with authority on this matter, estimates that, though it is difficult to obtain the early history of the criminals who enter English prisons, about twenty per cent of them are of primarily defective mental capacity. This ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis



Words linked to "Donkin" :   Bryan Donkin, engineer, applied scientist, technologist



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