Platform Scale
date: label: Date made
content: 1878
name: label: patented by
content: Fairbanks, Thaddeus
label: maker
content: E. and T. Fairbanks and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Thaddeus Fairbanks, “Improvement in Platform-Scales,” U.S. Patent 205,623 (July 2, 1878). According to the patent, the novelty of this scale “lies in the work under the platform.” Thaddeus Fairbanks (1796-1886) was a founder and proprietor of E. & T. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Saint Johnsbury
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.308959
label: catalog number
content: 308959
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 205,623
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.9 cm x 15.2 cm x 27.5 cm; 9 in x 6 in x 10 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: scale: 10 in x 5 1/2 in x 11 1/8 in; 25.4 cm x 13.97 cm x 28.2575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: box of parts: 1 3/4 in x 7 1/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 18.0975 cm x 8.255 cm