Re: Abner Doble?Pre/MIT?
Posted by: C Benson (IP Logged)
Date: December 29, 2002 01:36PM
<HTML>Oh,,What a wonderful post,,,,Now for a odd Question,,,,While looking up patents in the Boston Public Library,,,I found refrence to the NEW air tires used on the latest [horse] racing sulkey,,A new record was set,,1894--96 era,,,,and the record was lowerd by 6 sec[from memory],,,Now heres the catch The horse was NANCY and owned by a lady in [Brookline][?] cant recall the first name,,,DOBLE,,,,So were the boys at Mit partly because they had relatives here,also ,,, Also If my memory holds,,,1 or more of Abner's patents was assigned to a Ms Doble [1030983,,,,,,,1040289,,,assigned to Helen A Doble Brookline,,1911 + 1912,,,Doble Engineering is still alive as ever,,,new products of course,,,and the standard of the trade,,the calibration pot to adjust MASTER guages[electric] As I recall tel 617 -926-4900 at 85 Walnut st Watertown Less than a mile from the old Stanley factory ,,,'an SES,,,, I just couldnt resist to ask,,,The Stanley boys were into racing horses too,,! ! ! All for now Ben in Maine P/s I just also noted A.D 's patent for what looks like a kerosene vaporizer for a SLEEVE VALVE gas engine,,,1232777 app/1Oct1912 CB</HTML>