Nested Weights
name: label: maker
content: Edwards, John
notes: label: Description
content: Set of nine nested brass weights, weighing from 10 to 500 grams, that belonged to Joel Reed (b. 1827), owner of several gold mines in North Carolina.
label: Description
content: The “DTWS / I. EDWARDS / New York” inscription on the largest weight is that of John Edwards, an immigrant from Liverpool who was in New York City by 1801 and calling attention to his “warranted Scale Beam Manufactory.” Edwards’ several patents included one for steelyards in 1806, one for scale beams and balances in 1806, and one for an improvement in the manufacture of scale beams in 1816. He was dead by 1833.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. John Franklin Reed
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.321625
label: catalog number
content: 321625
label: accession number
content: 185076
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Weights
label: Object Type
content: Weights
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
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content: overall: largest weight: 2 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: smallest weight: 7/16 in x 13/16 in; 1.11125 cm x 2.06375 cm