Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Pasteurisation
Invented
1864
Louis Pasteur first used gentle heating to keep wine from spoiling.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P575: 1864Q58148, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“gær og skimmelsvampe i levneds- og nydelsesmidler. Metoden blev opfundet af den franske kemiker Louis Pasteur i 1864 til behandling af øl og vin, så uønskede bakterier ikke ødelagde produkterne.”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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