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Diesel engines are the most important product in the long Fairbanks, Morse line normally accounting for about one-half of total sales. Electric motors, generators and appliances rank second. Fairbanks Morse is one of the biggest pump-makers in the U. S. It supplies railroads with inspection cards, water-tanks...
Thaddeus Fairbanks invented the platform scale in St. Johnsbury, Vt. in 1830. It was the first substantial improvement in the art of weighing since the Romans developed the graduated steelyard. Before he died, the taciturn, ingenious Vermonter was honored as one of the great inventors of the 19th Century. He...
Fairbanks, Morse still makes every conceivable variety of scales and distributes them throughout the world. But the great scale plant at St. Johnsbury has long since been overshadowed by the main Midwest plant at Beloit, Wis.
There are no Fairbankses in Fairbanks, Morse today-only Morses. President Robert Hosmer Morse is the son of the founder of the Midwest division, which outstripped and later absorbed Vermont's old E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. Tall, heavy, hard-driving and a judge of good whiskey, President Morse started for college but dropped out of Hill School at the suggestion of his business-minded father, who set him to work as a molder's assistant in the Beloit foundry. During the War, President Morse was chief procurement officer for the U. S. Signal Corps, is still called "Colonel...
Though Colonel Morse is a remote figure to most of his staff, he insists on having his research director in an adjoining office. Not a penny has been scrimped on research during Depression, for the Colonel's passion is mechanical improvement of his products-a stronger selling point for...