Albert Edward Woolf

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Albert Edward Woolf

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Birthplace: New York, United States
Death: April 19, 1920 (73)
New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Edward Woolf and Sarah Woolf
Husband of Rosamond Woolf
Father of Samuel Johnson Woolf and Edgar Allen Woolf
Brother of Benjamin Edward Woolf; Michael Angelo Woolf; Hannah Woolf; Solomon Israel Woolf; Eliza Henius and 4 others

Occupation: chemist, electrical inventor
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About Albert Edward Woolf

biography

from The Jewish Encyclopedia: Talmud - Zweifel

WOOLF, ALBERT EDWARD: American chemist and inventor; born in New York Sept. 26, 1846; educated in the public schools of that city and at the College of the City of New York. Among Woolf's achievements may be mentioned: the introduction of peroxid of hydrogen for bleaching ostrich-feathers and for use as an antiseptic (1876), and the discovery (1889) of the antiseptic properties of sea-water decomposed by electrolysis (electrozone), a discovery now widely applied in the treatment of drinking-water, garbage, and sewage, and used by the United States authorities in suppressing yellow fever in Havana, Cuba (1899). Woolf is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and of the Society of Arts, London, England.

Bibliography; Who's Who in America, 1903–5. A. F. H. V.


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Albert Edward Woolf's Timeline

1846
September 26, 1846
New York, United States
1880
February 12, 1880
New York, New York, United States
1881
April 25, 1881
New York, United States
1920
April 19, 1920
Age 73
New York, United States