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In 1860, an exhibition hosted by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association awarded J. A. Peabody a medal for his Blind Mortising Machine. He exhibited the machine in the associations 1860 exhibition.
Peabody had received an 1855 patent for such a machine, and in 1868 he received a patent for improvements to his original design. The former patent gave Peabody's location as Lowell, and the latter gave it as Philadelphia. According to a notice in the 1869-08-14 issue of Scientific American, Peabody's 1855 patent was extended; the length of the extension was not given.
Information sources: correspondent Wayne Hoyt reported a sighting of the medal awarded to Peabody.