Bismar
date: label: Date made
content: 1946
name: label: maker
content: Kellokoski-Marifors Forge
notes: label: Description
content: A bismar (or desemer) is a simple balance with a weight at one end of the beam, a load hook at the other end, and a moveable fulcrum in between. This example is made of steel. The side of the beam is stamped in a circle “MARIEFORS + KELLOKOSKY +” and the weight is stamped with a crown and “1946 2.”
label: Description
content: Kellikosky is a village in the Finnish municipality of Tuusula; Mariefors is its Swedish name. An axe factory was established there in the early nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: Herrmann Sökeland “On Ancient Desemers or Steelyards,” <i>Smithsonian Institution Annual Report</i> (1900): 551-564.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.336574
label: accession number
content: 1978.0410
label: catalog number
content: 336574
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bismar
label: Object Name
content: bismar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: handle: 16 cm x 35 cm; 6 5/16 in x 13 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 79 cm x 3.8 cm x 17.8 cm; 31 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 7 in
label: Measurements
content: hook: 10 cm; 3 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 86.36 cm x 9.525 cm x 5.715 cm