Computing Scale
notes: label: Description
content: With this computing scale, the side that faces the customer shows the weight, while that facing the clerk shows the weight and cost. This scale was made after 1934, when the International Business Machine Corporation sold the domestic assets of its Dayton Scale Division to the Hobart Manufacturing Company of Troy, Ohio. The inscription reads "Manufactured by Dayton Scale Division / The Hobart Manufacturing Co. / Troy, Ohio U.S.A. / Serial No. 1199437 Style 100."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City of New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0514.24
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.24
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.7 cm x 36.1 cm x 17.8 cm; 10 1/2 in x 14 3/16 in x 7 in