Balance for Weighing Air
notes: label: Description
content: Simple balances for weighing air were popular science demonstrations in the nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: Negretti & Zambra, <i>Encyclopaedic Illustrated and Descriptive Reference Catalogue</i> (London, [1878), p. 433.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Middlebury College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315187
label: accession number
content: 216217
label: catalog number
content: 315187
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: base of balance: 4 1/4 in; x 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: rod: 9 in; 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: jar: 2 1/4 in; 5.715 cm