Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1905
name: label: maker
content: Henry Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: This is an assay balance with a 24-inch aluminum beam. The case is walnut with glass panels, and two drawers in the base. The column is marked “Henry Troemner, Philadelphia.” This was probably made in 1905, when the federal Assay Office in Denver became the Denver branch of the U.S. Mint.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Balance Equipment of the Denver Mint,” <i>Mining and Scientific Press</i> 90 (1905): 42.
label: Description
content: Henry Troemner, <i>Catalogue No. 1919</i> (Philadelphia, 1919), p. 91.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Denver Mint
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330614
label: catalog number
content: 330614
label: accession number
content: 302218
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance, beam
label: Object Name
content: balance, assay
label: Object Name
content: Assay Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: beam: 61 cm; 24 in
label: Measurements
content: each pan: 12 cm; x 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 117 cm x 120 cm x 19 cm; 46 1/16 in x 47 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 47 1/4 in x 46 1/4 in x 21 in; 120.015 cm x 117.475 cm x 53.34 cm