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A. B. Corby
Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery

History

Last Modified: May 10 2011 8:28PM by Jeff_Joslin
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In 1873, Alpheus B. Corby patented a picket-pointing machine. He exhibited his machine at that years New York Agricultural Society Fair, where it was awarded a certificate of merit. We do not know whether Corby ever manufactured his machine.

Information Sources

Awards at the thirty-third annual exhibition of the New York Agricultural Society, Albany, NY, October 1873: A. B. Corby, Binghamton, N. Y.; machine for pointing fence pickets, flat or square, new patent: Certificate of Merit.

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