Bulletin - United States National Museum . reaction to novelty or not, the chemistry of tanningsimply failed to excite enthusiasm. In 1851 at Londons CrystalPalace, while the world marveled at such products of industrialingenuity as Colts revolver and McCormacks reaper, the jurorssurveyed the exhibitors of leather and reported that thoughnumerous experiments have been tried, and many patents grantedfor new processes, there has been no decided improvement, nomarked progress, to show that better results have been obtainedthan by the old methods of tanning.^^ ^ Davy, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 317. 5*
Bulletin - United States National Museum . reaction to novelty or not, the chemistry of tanningsimply failed to excite enthusiasm. In 1851 at Londons CrystalPalace, while the world marveled at such products of industrialingenuity as Colts revolver and McCormacks reaper, the jurorssurveyed the exhibitors of leather and reported that thoughnumerous experiments have been tried, and many patents grantedfor new processes, there has been no decided improvement, nomarked progress, to show that better results have been obtainedthan by the old methods of tanning.^^ ^ Davy, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 317. 5* Coxe, Statement of the Arts and Manufactures of the United States of America for the Year IS 10,part 2, pp. XXXV, xxxvi. 50 Vol. 1, pp. 399, 542. 8 Great Exhi-sition . . 1851, Reports by the furies . . , p. 388. In the preface to the Americansection in the Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue (London, 1851), vol. 1, pp. 1431, 1432, nomention is made of domestic leather production. 30 CLA£Sin:ATi03DIVISION- 0 / /^///.//.v/./. ?^^^ ^ /:. .- ^t /r^Z/ylUifi^ -^^, v:. y^^yry,. ,-;...„.- --^ Figure 13.—William Edwards Patent, 1812. Some American tanners keptabreast of the latest European improvements. 31 681-431—64 Among the numerous experiments between the year of theDavv lectures and the worlds first great fair were a considerablenumber suggested bv Americans, and it should be no surprisethat most of these merely rephrased procedures previously triedand published abroad. For example, note the patent claimof William Edwards (see fig. 13), who, seeking to improvethe tanning of sole leather, in 1812 advocated the application of heatto the tanning solution. To European tanners, the Edwardsformula had been familiar practice since at least the Fessenden, in publishing Anthony Fays English patentin 1808, anticipated Edwards efforts to entirely extract thetanning principle from the bark thereby to produce a savingof bark and time in the process.* Samuel Parker, m
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