Balance
date: label: date made
content: after 1867
name: label: maker
content: Bunge, Paul
notes: label: Description
content: Heavy metallurgical balance in a mahogany case with glass sides. The beam is 20.5 inches long. The graduated scale is marked “Paul Bunge Hamburg” and read by telescope. An ivory index at the base of the pillar is marked “No. 9 3897.”
label: Description
content: Paul Bunge (1839-1888) began making precision balances in 1866, and soon introduced a balance with an unusually short beam but standard load capacity. Since the mass of the beam was small, so too was the time required for its oscillation.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>German Educational Exhibition of Scientific Instruments</i> (Berlin, 1904), pp. 18-20.
label: Description
content: Hans R. Jenemann, <i>The Chemist’s Balance</i> (Frankfurt, 1997), pp. 49-50.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hamburg, Hamburg
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Amy Chassid
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0406.1
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0406.1
label: accession number
content: 1981.0406
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Metallurgical Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: each pan: 66.6 cm x 27.5 cm x 18.4 cm; 26 1/4 in x 10 13/16 in x 7 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: eyepiece: 260 mm x 28 mm; 10 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 93.6 cm x 57.2 cm x 96.7 cm; 36 27/32 in x 22 17/32 in x 38 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: beam: 81.1 cm x 16.5 cm x 51.7 cm; 31 15/16 in x 6 1/2 in x 20 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: legs: 70.5 cm x 41.3 cm; 27 3/4 in x 16 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: case: 39 7/8 in x 38 in x 22 1/2 in; 101.2825 cm x 96.52 cm x 57.15 cm