History of Controlled Atmosphere

There is some evidence to suggest that the ancient Egyptians and Samarians in the second century BC stored portions of their crop in sealed limestone crypts to prolong its storage life.
The first recorded experiments to control fruit ripening by changing the atmospheric conditions were carried out in France by Jacquet Beard in 1821. The results of the experiments won him the Grand Prix de Physique from the French academy of Sciences, but it failed to inspire any commercial application.

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