Samuel Guthrie, American Inventor and Physician
Samuel Guthrie (1782-1848) was an American physician who 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. Portrait from Memoirs of Dr. Samuel Guthrie, and the history of the discovery of chloroform (1887). Colorized
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