William Edwards (inventor)
- William Edwards (inventor)
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. [White, James Terry. [http://books.google.com/books?id=-t4DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=%22william+edwards%22+leather+inventor+elizabeth&source=web&ots=M1UGutMlOV&sig=H-7OJt5u-SC0joWrRh5MAkmJsvg "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography"] , p. 225. Accessed December 9, 2007.]
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