Babbitt Metal. Babbitt metal, is an antifriction metal alloy first produced by Isaac Babbitt in 1839. In present-day usage the term is applied to a whole class of silver-white bearing metals, or white metals. These alloys usually consist of relatively hard crystals embedded in a softer matrix, a structure important for machine bearings.
Burlington is 13 miles west of the Kansas border and 166 miles east of Denver, Colorado. Passing through Stratton, Seibert is 35 miles west of Burlington along Interstate-70 (I-70).
1 Coffey county-Coffey county is administered by the county Seat of Burlington, and has a population of 8,865 people per the census data of 2000. 2  Douglas county-Douglas county holds a total population of 99,620 people, according to the census data of 2000.