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Benjamin Dearborn, Remarks on the Construction of the Common Scale-Beam, with a Description of the New Gold Standard Beam, Invented by the Author, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1809), pp. 40-50
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