Micrometer Scale
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1915 (patent date)
label: date made
content: around 1920
name: label: maker
content: Dodge Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: This robust single-pan balance sits on a cast iron base with marble top. The Micrometer Balance Scale Co. of Troy, N.Y., introduced this form in 1897. The Dodge Mfg. Co., of Yonkers, was selling these devices by 1905.The inscription on this example reads “The Dodge SCALE / NUMBER 210 / PATENTED AUG. 4, 1914 APR. 26, 1916 / AUG. 14, 1917 OTHERS PENDING / THE DODGE SCALE CO. / 126 ELEVENTH AVE. / NEW YORK / FACTORY NUMBER / 691.” The pan is missing.
label: Description
content: Ref: Alfred C. Dodge, “Weighing-Machine,” U.S. Patent 1,180,330 (Apr. 25, 1916)
label: Description
content: Alfred C. Dodge, “Weighing-Machine,” U.S. Patent 1,236,686 (Aug. 14, 1917).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Detecto Scales, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.336575
label: catalog number
content: 336575
label: accession number
content: 1978.0424
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 39.5 cm x 21 cm; 11 in x 15 9/16 in x 8 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: level vial: 64 mm x 9.5 mm; 2 1/2 in x 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 15 1/2 in x 8 in; 27.94 cm x 39.37 cm x 20.32 cm