Grain Testing Scale
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
name: label: maker
content: Fairbanks
notes: label: Description
content: This device is so designed that, by balancing a quantity of grain in the cup, the beam will indicate how many pounds it will weigh to the bushel. In this example, the beam is marked “Patd Dec / 18 1877” and the poise is marked “Bushel” and “E. & T. Fairbanks & Co.” and “St. Johnsbury / VT” and “6754.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Franklin Fairbanks, “Improvement in Devices for Weighing Samples of Grain,” U.S. Patent 198,364 (Dec. 18, 1877).
label: Description
content: E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., <i>Fairbanks’ Standard Weighing Machines</i> (St. Johnsbury, Vt., [1882]), pp. 204-205.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Saint Johnsbury
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ruth M. Parks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0566.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0566
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0566.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scale
label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: beam: 38.7 cm x 8.4 cm x 3.2 cm; 15 1/4 in x 3 5/16 in x 1 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: scale: 20 cm x 11.8 cm; 7 7/8 in x 4 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; beam: 12 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 30.7975 cm x 8.89 cm x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; measure: 4 1/2 in x 6 in x 4 3/4 in; 11.43 cm x 15.24 cm x 12.065 cm