Soon half a million windmills dotted the landscape on farms throughout the West and as far away as Australia. Wheeler designed a durable windmill for pumping water, the "Eclipse Windmill." Wheeler set up shop in Beloit just after the US Civil War. Fairbanks was the leading manufacturer in the US - and the best known the world over - until Henry Ford stole that crown. Fairbanks scales won 63 medals over the years in international competition. Scales were integral to business as marine and railway shippers charged by weight. That device was patented in June 1832, and a generation later, the E & T Fairbanks & Company was selling thousands of scales first in the United States, later in Europe, South America and even Imperial China. Though unsuccessful in fabrication for fibre factories, another invention by Thaddeus, the platform scale, formed the basis for the great enterprise. In 1829 he started in a hemp dressing business for which he built the machinery. Johnsbury, Vermont, to manufacture two of his patented inventions, a cast iron plow (plough UK) and a heating stove. Fairbanks, Morse & Company had its beginning in 1823 when inventor Thaddeus Fairbanks began an ironworks in St.
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