William Edwards (inventor)

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William Edwards (1770 – 1851) was an American inventor, grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the elder. He was born in Elizabethtown, N. J.. 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.


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