Samuel Guthrie (United States physician)
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Samuel Guthrie (1782 - 1848) was an American physician from Hounsfield, New York. He invented a form of percussion powder and also the punch lock for igniting it, which made the flintlock musket obsolete. He discovered chloroform independently in 1831.
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