History of the American pianoforte : its technical development, and the trade . sor of all modern attempts at plate-casting on the lines intimated. To recapitulate : Babcock, while in Boston, in 1825, took out a patentfor a metal frame complete, with hitch-pin section madein one casting. This is showm elsewhere. It is incon-trovertibly the basis of every subsequent attempt in thatdirection. This record is dated December 17th in thePatent Office. Now, while it is known very generallythat Babcock was granted this patent, a very generalmisconception prevails as to the absolute nature andscope of
History of the American pianoforte : its technical development, and the trade . sor of all modern attempts at plate-casting on the lines intimated. To recapitulate : Babcock, while in Boston, in 1825, took out a patentfor a metal frame complete, with hitch-pin section madein one casting. This is showm elsewhere. It is incon-trovertibly the basis of every subsequent attempt in thatdirection. This record is dated December 17th in thePatent Office. Now, while it is known very generallythat Babcock was granted this patent, a very generalmisconception prevails as to the absolute nature andscope of his iron frame, and many absurd statementshave been perpetuated in reference to it. The standardBritish authority, Mr. Hipkins, writing in 1880 on Allenscast-iron frame patent of 1831, writes as follows, on Bab-cocks : Allens proposal of one casting had been antic-ipated in America by Alpheus Babcock, of Boston,U. S., who, in 1825, patented a cast-iron frame for squarepianos. The object of this frame, like that of Allensfirst patent, was compensation. It failed, but Babcocks. o
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