Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons

An installation by Marie Watt commemorating Northwest servicemen and -women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Tabitha Babbitt
1784–1853
Contributed by Tom Nutt

Early American tool maker, credited with inventing the first circular saw used in a saw mill in 1813. She also shares the invention of cut nails with Eli Whitney. A member of the Shaker community in Harvard, MA, Babbitt never patented any of her inventions.