Analytical Balance
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1890
name: label: Maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1892, Queen & Co. described this type of long-arm balance as a “new aluminum beam instrument, with agate planes, [that] is sensitive to 1/10th of a milligramme." It cost $45 and was "the best analytical balance offered for the price.” The case is wood and glass. The Smithsonian probably acquired this example at that time, for use in its chemical laboratory.
label: Description
content: Ref: Queen & Co. illustrated ad in The Pharmaceutical Era 8 (Dec. 15, 1892): 64.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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.314647
label: accession number
content: 208320
label: catalog number
content: 314647
objectType: label: Object Name
content: analytical balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 17 in x 9 in x 17 in; 43.18 cm x 22.86 cm x 43.18 cm