# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thaddeus-fairbanks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:51:01.332Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thaddeus-fairbanks"
name: "Thaddeus Fairbanks"
slug: "thaddeus-fairbanks"
description: "Thaddeus Fairbanks was an American businessman, mechanic, and engineer. He invented furnaces, cooking stoves, cast iron steel plows, and other metal items related to farming. He invented and manufactured the first platform scale, the Fairbanks scale, that allowed the accurate weighing of large objects. His scales revolutionized farming and manufacturing and were sold worldwide, and he received numerous honors and awards for his development of the technology. Fairbanks was also a philanthropist, and was a co-founder of the St. Johnsbury Academy."
tagline: "American inventor (1796–1886)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thaddeus_Fairbanks_c._1880.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1796-01-17"
deathDate: "1886-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.58
  momentum:             3.488372093023257
  historical:           4.606588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "ثاديوس فيربانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_Fairbanks"
    title: "Thaddeus Fairbanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%DB%86%D8%B3_%D9%81%DB%8E%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "سادیۆس فێربانکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_Fairbanks"
    title: "Thaddeus Fairbanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_Fairbanks"
    title: "Thaddeus Fairbanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7708979"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump