Balance
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1796
notes: label: Description
content: Two balances and eight nested bronze weights in a rectangular wooden box. One balance has an 18-inch iron beam, brass chains, and two 7-inch pans marked “*HUNDRED*WEST*DERBY*1796.” The other has an 11-inch iron beam, brass chain, and two 4-inch brass pans marked “*HUNDRED*WEST*DERBY*1796.” Two weights are marked “AVOIRDUPOISE.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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.328620
label: catalog number
content: 328620
label: accession number
content: 273384
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance set with weights
label: Object Type
content: Weights
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: each pan: 2.5 cm x 18 cm; in x 7 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: beam 2: 28 cm; 11 in
label: Measurements
content: chain: 47 cm; 18 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: smallest weight: 1/4 in x 9/16 in; .635 cm x 1.42875 cm
label: Measurements
content: beam 1: 45.7 cm; 18 in
label: Measurements
content: largest weight: 4.6 cm x 6.7 cm; 1 13/16 in x 2 5/8 in