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Sarah "Tabitha" Babbitt (December 9, 1779 - December 10, 1853) was a Shaker credited as a tool maker and inventor. Inventions attributed to her by the Shakers include the circular saw , the spinning wheel head, and false teeth.
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Manny Babbitt (1949−1999), U.S. Marine veteran executed in California; Milton Babbitt (1916–2011), American composer of serial and electronic music; Natalie Babbitt (1932−2016), American author and illustrator of children's books, notably Tuck Everlasting, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, and Knee-Knock Rise; Tabitha Babbitt (1779−1853 ...
B. Tabitha Babbitt; Betty Lou Bailey; Ellene Alice Bailey; Betsey Metcalf Baker; Anna Baldwin; Alice Ball; Alice Pike Barney; Janet Emerson Bashen; Patricia Bath
Watching sugar farmers cut through thick cane stalks with machetes, he believed that there was a better way.. Michel mounted a mixer motor onto a standard machete, as well as a worm wheel gearbox and a 2-inch circular blade.
The use of a large circular saw in a saw mill is said to have been invented in 1813 by Tabitha Babbitt, a Shaker inventor, after she noted the inefficiency of the traditional saw pits used by the sawyers in her community and sought an improvement. [11] [5] [12] This claim is now mostly discredited. [13] [14]
B. Benjamin T. Babbitt; Isaac Babbitt; Tabitha Babbitt; Alpheus Babcock; George Herman Babcock; Jerome Babe; Leo Baekeland; Ellene Alice Bailey; Leonard Bailey (inventor)
1779 – Tabitha Babbitt, American tool maker and inventor (d. 1853) 1806 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (d. 1838) 1813 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1885) 1837 – Émile Waldteufel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1915)