William Edwards (inventor)
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William Edwards (c. 1770–1851) was an American inventor, grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the elder. He was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He introduced a valuable improvement in the manufacture of leather, whereby tanning was accomplished in a quarter of the usual time. He invented machines which greatly advanced the production of leather in America.[1]
References
- ↑ White, James Terry. "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography", p. 225. Accessed December 9, 2007.