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EXHIBIT 24

                       P O W E R   O F   A T T O R N E Y



         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that _________________________, a
director of Dover Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Gary L. Roubos, Thomas L. Reece, John F. McNiff and
Robert G. Kuhbach, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him/her on his/her
behalf and in his/her name, place and stead, to sign, execute and affix his/her
name thereto and file the Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 1993, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and any other appropriate authority, granting unto said attorneys
and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act
and thing required and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order
to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she himself
might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, of any of them may lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his/her hand this
3rd day of February, 1994.

                                               /s/     Magalen O. Bryant       
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                                               Magalen O. Bryant

                                               /s/     Lewis E. Burns          
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                                               Lewis E. Burns

                                               /s/    Michael C. Devas         
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                                               Michael C. Devas

                                               /s/    John F. Fort             
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                                               John F. Fort

                                               /s/    James L. Koley           
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                                               James L. Koley

                                               /s/    George L. Ohrstrom       
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                                               George L. Ohrstrom

                                               /s/    Anthony J. Ormsby        
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                                               Anthony J. Ormsby

                                               /s/    Thomas L. Reece          
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                                               Thomas L. Reece

                                               /s/    Gary L. Roubos           
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                                               Gary L. Roubos

                                               /s/    David G. Thomas          
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                                               David G. Thomas