Spring Scale
date: label: date made
content: around 1911
label: date made
content: around 1912
name: label: maker
content: Sturgis Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This small aluminum spring scale, said to be the “cheapest, simplest, most convenient ever invented,” indicates weights in pounds and ounces, and lengths in inches and centimeters. The inscriptions read “STURGIS MNFG. CO., BALTIMORE, MD.” and “DIXIE LETTER SCALE” and “PATENTED.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Russell Hastings Millward, “Combined Ruler and Letter-Scale,” U.S. Patent 1,045,425 (Nov. 26, 1912).
label: Description
content: Ad for “Dixie Postal Scale” in <i>Walden’s Stationer and Printer</i> (Jan. 1911): 39.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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: 1994.0019.47
label: accession number
content: 1994.0019
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0019.47
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spring Scale
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 1 in; 12.7 cm x 2.54 cm