Steelyard
Steelyard
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- Description
- Thaddeus Fairbanks (1796-1886), a founder and proprietor of E. & T. Fairbanks, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, obtained a patent for a steelyard for very heavy loads in 1846. This is the model he submitted with his patent application.
- Ref: Thaddeus Fairbanks, “Steelyard,” U.S. Patent 4,761 (September 15, 1846).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Steelyard
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Date made
- 1846
- patented by
- Fairbanks, Thaddeus
- maker
- E. and T. Fairbanks and Company
- Measurements
- overall: 7 cm x 59 cm x 3.2 cm; 2 3/4 in x 23 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 23 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 59.055 cm x 3.175 cm
- ID Number
- CH.308908
- accession number
- 89797
- catalog number
- 308908
- subject
- Weights & Measures
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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