Re: Fairbanks rail scale
| May 12, 2008 02:46PM |
I found a copy of Fairbank's patent from 1857 titled "Improved Platform-Scale for Weighing Railway-Cars Either Alone or in Train"
(http://www.google.com/patents?id=-vBUAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=Improved+Platform-Scale+for+Weighing+Railway-Cars+Either+Alone+or+in+Train&source=web&ots=M1oCA83S85&sig=C1GF3agD2Acu3U6LsdBlAynZa_o&hl=en#PPP1,M1)
(http://www.google.com/patents?id=-vBUAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=Improved+Platform-Scale+for+Weighing+Railway-Cars+Either+Alone+or+in+Train&source=web&ots=M1oCA83S85&sig=C1GF3agD2Acu3U6LsdBlAynZa_o&hl=en#PPP1,M1)
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