Torsion Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1950
name: label: maker
content: Torsion Balance Company
notes: label: Description
content: A tag on the base reads “THE TORSION BALANCE CO. NEW YORK STYLE 253 No. B112305 CAPACITY 4½KG. MADE IN U.S.A. APPROVED TYPE PENNA. SERIES NO. J.” Raised letters on the base read “TORSION BALANCE.” The case is oak, with hinged top.
label: Description
content: This model had a capacity of 10 pounds, a sensitiveness of 3 grains, and a graduated beam in front, and was extensively used for routine work in colleges and industrial plants, and for weighing small animals.
label: Description
content: Ref: The Torsion Balance Co., <i>Balances and Scales. Catalog No. 39</i> (New York, ca. 1941), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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.337152
label: catalog number
content: 337152
label: accession number
content: 1979.0026
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Torsion Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.3 cm x 56 cm x 28 cm; 11 9/16 in x 22 1/16 in x 11 in