William Edwards
American inventor
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| Intro | American inventor | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Inventor Engineer | |
| Work field | Business Engineering | |
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| Birth | 1770 | |
| Death | 1851 (aged 81 years) |
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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.