William Edwards (inventor)

For other people named William Edwards, see William Edwards (disambiguation).

William Edwards (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.

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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Name	Edwards, William
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Date of birth	1770
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Date of death	1851
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