Vintage Advertising Hang Tag A O Norton Inc 100 Ton Ball Bearing Jack 1917

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Vintage Advertising A.O. Norton Inc Self Lowering Ball Bearing Jacks 1917
This is an Hang Tag Advertisement for A.O. Norton's 100 Ton Capacity Self Lowering Ball Bearing Jack. The other side of the hand tag is a Victorian Lady of the times...1917 Calendar.
Trivia: Arthur Osmore Norton started out in the wholesale and retail jewelry business in Coaticook, but in 1886 he purchased the rights to a device invented by another local resident, Frank Henry Sleeper. Sleeper was only 24 when he came up with the idea of using a ball bearing for supporting loads and transferring rotary motion into linear motion through a gear and screw. This was the beginning the "Norton Ball Bearing Lifting Jack" which Norton Manufactured in Coaticook Boston and Moline Illinois. The jack proved very effective in bridge construction, but was particularly appilcable to lifting locomotives and railway cars. Norton incorporated first in the U.S. in 1906 and not until 1913 in Canada (the year after a fire destroyed the Coaticook plant). The jack made Norton a very rich man and his palatial home built in 1912 is now the home of the Beaulne Museum.
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