Hiram Kimball's invention cuts to the chase... and gets the job done faster.

Hiram A. Kimball was born in Stockbridge on this day in 1837.

The Vermont landscape is rich in stone. Miners have excavated and quarried granite, slate and marble out of Vermont hillsides to be used for sculpture and architecture around the world.

Kimball's contribution would change the industry, particularly marble. Mechanically inclined, Kimaball invented a saw that could cut right through marble.

With the burgeoning Vermont Marble Company in Proctor, the saw was a welcome improvement in efficiency. Kimball's saw would be modified, adapted and improved, but he held the original patent.

Image courtesy the Town of Stockbridge.

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