Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1931
name: label: maker
content: Troemner, Henry
notes: label: Description
content: This type of Ball Scale was described, in 1919, as “A new and elegant solution or counter scale” that will weigh from 1/4 oz. to 16 lbs. without the use of ordinary weights. It has a 10-inch nickel pan, five slots for balls, and a smaller sliding ball that moves from left to right. A rectangular brass tag on this example reads “HENRY TROEMNER / PHILADELPHIA, PA. / CAP. 16 LBS. NO. 124 / MADE IN THE U.S.A.” A circular tag reads “PENNA & N.Y.C. APP’D TYPE 12 SERIAL W2.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner, <i>Catalogue</i> (Philadelphia, 1919), p. 10.
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: From Henry Troemner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.M-03084
label: catalog number
content: M-03084
label: accession number
content: 116033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 17 1/2 in x 10 in; 23.495 cm x 44.45 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 21 1/2 in x 10 in; 23.495 cm x 54.61 cm x 25.4 cm