Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1930
name: label: maker
content: Bunge, Paul
notes: label: Description
content: Analytical balance with a 3-inch beam, 1.5-inch silver pans, ivory scale inscribed “PAUL BUNGE – HAMBURG," and wood case with glass sides. There is also "No. 25A 7301."
label: Description
content: Paul Bunge (1839-1888) was a German engineer who began making precision balances in 1866.The firm introduced this model in 1925, describing it as a “Micro-Chemical balance according to Prof. Fritz Pregel to carry up to 20 grammes.” The form remained available throughout the 1930s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Paul Bunge, <i>Price-List 25</i> (Hamburg), p. 29.
label: Description
content: Hans R. Jenemann, <i>The Chemist’s Balance</i> (Frankfurt, 1997), pp. 49-50.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hamburg, Hamburg
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cornell University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.318262
label: catalog number
content: 318262
label: accession number
content: 231262
objectType: label: Object Name
content: analytical balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: base: 14 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 36.195 cm x 22.225 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: beam: 3 in; 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 13 3/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 9 3/8 in; 33.9725 cm x 20.6375 cm x 23.8125 cm