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Alpheus Babcock (September 11, 1785 – April 3, 1842) was a piano and musical instrument maker in Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the early 19th century. Babcock is best known for patenting a complete iron frame in a single casting used to resist the strain of the strings in square pianos, he also patented a system of stringing in squares, and improvements in piano actions.

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Alpheus Babcock

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Alpheus Babcock (September 11, 1785 – April 3, 1842) was a piano and musical instrument maker in Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

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Babcock

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Babcock is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alpheus Babcock (1785–1842), American piano and musical instrument maker Audrey...

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List of piano brand names

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Auburn Aucher August Förster Auto Piano Co. Babcock, Alpheus Babcock, Lewis & Alpheus Babcock, Appleton & Babcock Bach Bachman Bacon, Francis Baer, C. Bailey...

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Piano

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The single piece cast iron frame was patented in 1825 in Boston by Alpheus Babcock, combining the metal hitch pin plate (1821, claimed by Broadwood on...

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List of piano manufacturers

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1803–1993 Alfred Knight, Ltd. London UK 1936–2003 Allen Brook London UK Alpheus Babcock Boston US 1810–1829 American Piano Company East Rochester, NY US 1908–1941...

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1785 in music

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5 – Thomas Adams, organist and composer (died 1858) September 11 – Alpheus Babcock, American piano maker (died 1842) November 2 – Friedrich Kalkbrenner...

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List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees

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original on May 20, 2020. Retrieved January 5, 2020. "NIHF Inductee Alpheus Babcock Invented the Cast Iron Piano Frame". www.invent.org. April 6, 2024...

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Music technology

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The single piece cast iron frame was patented in 1825 in Boston by Alpheus Babcock,[incomplete short citation] combining the metal hitch pin plate (1821...

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Jonas Chickering

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Mackay, a merchant, as well as organ and pianomaker who had worked with Alpheus Babcock, doing business as Chickering & Co. at 416 Washington street. In 1837...

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Mungo Mackay

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of Boston and the Masonic Order in Boston. His legacy includes the Alpheus Babcock and Jonas Chickering piano manufacturing establishments. Mungo Mackay...

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Loud Brothers

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of the Franklin Institute. They were outclassed in one direction by Alpheus Babcock, of Boston, to whom the premium for the best square was awarded, but...

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Brigham Young

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missionaries of the Latter Day Saint movement—Eleazer Miller, Elial Strong, Alpheus Gifford, Enos Curtis, and Daniel Bowen—came from the branch of the church...

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List of mayors of Los Angeles

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FIGHT FOR PURE GOVERNMENT". Los Angeles Herald. March 16, 1909. John R. Babcock, "When Los Angeles Was a World-Class City of Corruption," Los Angeles Herald-Examiner...

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2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

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Brigade (commanded by Gordon), 1st Division (commanded by Major General Alpheus S. Williams), II Corps (commanded by Banks), of Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army...

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List of executive actions by Theodore Roosevelt

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Without Examination April 17, 1908 748 784 Authorizing Reinstatement of Alpheus H. Mahone as Fish Culturist in Bureau of Fisheries Without Regard to Civil...

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List of New York state senators

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John S. Sheppard Kenneth Sherbell John V. Sheridan Thomas I. Sheridan Alpheus Sherman George C. Sherman Franklin D. Sherwood Lyman Sherwood Daniel Shipherd...

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List of Phillips Exeter Academy people

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businessman David Barker Jr. (1812) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire Alpheus Spring Packard Sr. (1812) – professor; acting president of Bowdoin College...

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Harriet Robinson Scott

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Taliaferro had recorded in his journal took place on November 29, 1836 between Alpheus R. French and Mary Henry, suggesting that Harriet and Dred's wedding took...

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List of Cosmos Club members

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constructor and youngest Rear Admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy Alpheus Henry Bowman brigadier general U.S. Army George Lothrop Bradley 1883 artist...

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List of Psi Upsilon members

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Mathematician) Thomas Burr Osborne (Biochemist, Discovered Vitamin A) Alpheus Spring Packard (American entomologist and palaeontologist, founder of The...

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