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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Babbitt , Isaac , 1799 -1862 (search)
Babbitt, Isaac, 1799-1862
Inventor; born in Taunton, Mass., July 26, 1799.
About 1831 he made, in Taunton, the first Britannia-ware manufactured in the United States, and in 1839 he invented the anti-friction metal which bears his name.
Congress gave him $20,000 for his invention; and he took out patents in England (1844) and Russia (1847). He died in Somerville, Mass., May 26, 1862.