James Cutbush

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Edgar Fahs Smith (1854 -1928) was an American scientist who is best known today for his interests in the history of chemistry. Smith was a co-founder of the American Chemical Society’s History of Chemistry division. James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823 is the story on one of a group of men in the early 1800’s who brought chemistry to the laity. Cutbush is noted for his work in pyrotechnics. He was appointed to the army with the rank of assistant apothecary-general in 1814. He was chief medical officer at West Point. Cutbush authored
Useful Cabinet (1808); Philosophy of Experimental Chemistry (1813); and Treatise on Pyrotechnics (Philadelphia, 1825).