Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Small balance that fits into and stands on a mahogany box with tag that reads “HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA, PA. / CAP. 2 OZ NO. 17 . . . / MADE IN THE U.S.A.” The brass scale at the bottom of the pillar has a “HENRY TROEMNER / PHILADELPHIA” inscription. The beam is brass, and measures 7.9 inches between the steel pivots. There is a bubble level on the box. The Smithsonian acquired this in 1931.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Heil, <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price-list of Chemical Apparatus</i> (St. Louis, 1903), p. 114.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-03086
label: catalog number
content: M-03086
label: accession number
content: 116033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (beam material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (colomn material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (hangers, pan(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel (pans(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: plated (pans(2) production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 12 7/8 in x 6 7/8 in; 10.16 cm x 32.7025 cm x 17.4625 cm