. Gazetteer and business directory of Rutland county, Vt., for 1881-82. (The Howe Scale Comtanys Works.) the works can have any approximate idea of the magnitude of the may be well to look back a httle into the history of the Howe Scales,whose name has become as famihar as a household-word, not only in thiscountry, but in Europe. The original inventors of these scales were F. and Thomas Ross, both young men of thorough mechanical geniusand full of energy. In 1855 these gentlemen conceived the plan of construct-ing their scales, which was followed up with unwearied study, a
. Gazetteer and business directory of Rutland county, Vt., for 1881-82. (The Howe Scale Comtanys Works.) the works can have any approximate idea of the magnitude of the may be well to look back a httle into the history of the Howe Scales,whose name has become as famihar as a household-word, not only in thiscountry, but in Europe. The original inventors of these scales were F. and Thomas Ross, both young men of thorough mechanical geniusand full of energy. In 1855 these gentlemen conceived the plan of construct-ing their scales, which was followed up with unwearied study, and after vari-ous experiments the conception was matured, and a patent obtained on the15th of January, 1856. In the fall of that year they put up the first scale, in 196 TOWN OF RUTLAND. mills owned by Joel Hills, at Vernon village, N. Y. At about this time theyalso put upon exhibition at the American Institute, New York city, their hayscales and some smaller ones, which were objects of much attention. In thespring of 1857, Mr. John Howe, Jr., of Brandon, having seen
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