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date: label: Date made
content: 1879
name: label: patented by
content: Farnum, William C.
label: maker
content: Farnum, W.C.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for William C. Farnum, “Improvement in Weighing-Scales,” U.S. Patent 216,514 (April 11, 1879). Farnum was an inventor and manufacturing executive in Hoosick Falls, New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Hoosick Falls
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.308962
label: catalog number
content: 308962
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 216,514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 12 3/4 in x 6 3/8 in; 22.5425 cm x 32.385 cm x 16.1925 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 14 1/4 in x 6 3/8 in; 22.86 cm x 36.195 cm x 16.1925 cm