Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1870
name: label: maker
content: H. B. & W. O. Chamberlain
notes: label: Description
content: Analytical balance with brass beam 13 inches long, and two pans about 3 inches diameter. The case has a wooden frame, glass sides, and drawer in the base. The inscription on a brass tag reads “H.B. & W.O. Chamberlain / Boston.”
label: Description
content: Ref: H. B. & W. O. Chamberlain, <i>Catalog of Chemical Apparatus</i> (Boston, ca. 1865), p. 34.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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: 1984.1079.1
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1079.1
label: accession number
content: 1984.1079
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance, Laboratory
label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Name
content: Analytical Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: beam between knife: 33 cm; 13 in
label: Measurements
content: each pan: 80 mm; x 3 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: each bow: 229 mm x 95 mm; 9 in x 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42.5 cm x 48.2 cm x 18.4 cm; 16 3/4 in x 19 in x 7 1/4 in