Edward Adam (11 October 1768 – 11 November 1807Place Édouard Adam
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who, beginning in 1800 while studying at

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, invented various

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modifications to improve chemical rectification, upon which the industrialization of the manufacture of products such as

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have since been based.

Biography

Jean-Édouard Adam invented a

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method that removed all spirit from wine, revolutionizing

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production in the

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, bringing it economic prosperity for a time, before being ruined by the loss of the many lawsuits he had to fight against his counterfeiters. Having registered a first patent in 1801 Brevet 1801
base INPI, brevets anciens and another in 1805, his brother Gaspard Zacharie made further improvements through successive patents after his death.

References

1768 births 1807 deaths 19th-century French inventors 19th-century French chemists University of Montpellier alumni Scientists from Rouen Distillation {{France-engineer-stub