Ambrose Godfrey

Oil painting of Ambrose Godfrey

Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwitz FRS (1660 – 15 January 1741), also known as Gottfried Hankwitz, also written Hanckewitz, or Ambrose Godfrey[1][2] as he preferred to be known, was a German-born British phosphorus manufacturer and apothecary.[3] He was one of the first phosphorus manufacturers and was one of the best and most successful in his time. He invented and patented a machine that acted as a fire extinguisher.[4]

  1. ^ "Godfrey-Hanckewitz; Ambrose (1660 - 1741)". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  2. ^ Johann Bartholomäus, Trommsdorff (1812). Die Apothekerkunst in ihrem ganzen Umfange: nach alphabetischer Ordnung. N – S (in German). Henningssche Buchhandlung. p. 151.
  3. ^ J. Ince, 'Ambrose Godfrey Hanckwitz 1660–1740', Pharm. J., 18 (1858), 126, 157 and 215.
  4. ^ A. Godfrey, An Account of the New Method of Extinguishing Fires by Explosion and Suffocation, London, 1724.