Platform Scale
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These patents, in turn, were canceled because of defective specifications, and newer ones (#118 and #119) were granted on February 10, 1837. The model shown here pertains to one of these later patents."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "Platform scales made by the Fairbanks brothers were on the market by 1833. And they contributed to the silver medal that the Fairbanks won at the 1837 exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "Ref: Erastus Fairbanks and Thaddeus Fairbanks, \u00e2\u0080\u009cImprovement in the Machine for Weighing Heavy Bodies,\u00e2\u0080\u009d U.S. Patent 118 (February 10, 1837)."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "Erastus Fairbanks and Thaddeus Fairbanks, \u00e2\u0080\u009cImprovement in the Machine for Weighing Heavy Bodies,\u00e2\u0080\u009d U.S. Patent 119 (February 10, 1837)."}, {"label": "Location", "content": "Currently not on view"}], "name": [{"label": "patented by", "content": "Fairbanks, Thaddeus"}, {"label": "patented by", "content": "Fairbanks, E."}, {"label": "maker", "content": "E. and T. 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