Computing Scale
date: label: Date made
content: 1870
name: label: patented by
content: Phinney, William H.
label: maker
content: Phinney, William H.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for William H. Phinney, “Improvement in Scales for Showing Weight and Price,” U.S. Patent 106,869 (Aug. 30, 1870). Although the invention was not commercially successful, Phinney would later be hailed as the beginning of an important industry. Phinney lived in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,
label: Description
content: Ref: Jacob Baer, “The History and Construction of Computing Scales,” <i>Scale Journal</i> 3 (April 1917): 47-50.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Pawtucket
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.308931
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 308931
label: patent number
content: 106,869
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scale
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 4 3/8 in x 11 1/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 11.1125 cm x 28.575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 12 in; 9.8425 cm x 10.795 cm x 30.48 cm