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After experimenting with new types of farm equipment, plows, and stoves, Thaddeus Fairbanks invented the platform scale here in 1830. With his brothers Erastus and Joseph, he founded the company that still bears their name. Many St. Johnsbury public institutions were gifts of this talented family.
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St. Johnsbury, Vermont · United States
