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unusual facts about James Hartness


Frederick H. Babbitt

In 1920 Babbitt was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor, losing the Republican nomination to James Hartness.


Edwin R. Fellows

Edwin R. Fellows (May 29, 1865 – May 21, 1945) was an American inventor and entrepreneur from Torrington, Connecticut who designed and built a new type of gear shaper in 1896 and, with the mentoring of James Hartness, left the Jones & Lamson Machine Company to co-found the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield, Vermont, which became one of the leading firms in the gear-cutting segment of the machine tool industry.

Optical comparator

The first commercial comparator was a creation of James Hartness and Russell W. Porter.


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