B. C. Tilghman

American chemist

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In papermaking: Chemical wood pulp
…defibring wood was observed by B.C. Tilghman, a U.S. chemist, as early as 1857. Several years later he renewed his experiments and, in 1867, was granted a patent for making paper pulp from vegetable material. He used high temperature and pressure and observed that the presence of a base such…
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