Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1905
name: label: maker
content: Henry Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Analytical balance in a walnut case with glass panels and two drawers in the base. The pans are 9 inches diameter. The beam is 36 inches long between knife edges. The inscription on a brass plate reads: “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: 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: Transfer from Denver Mint
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330616
label: catalog number
content: 330616
label: accession number
content: 302218
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Beam Balance, 36 in
label: Object Name
content: beam balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: each pan: 23 cm; x 9 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 117 cm x 40.7 cm x 137 cm; 46 1/16 in x 16 in x 53 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 in x 17 in x 54 in; 114.3 cm x 43.18 cm x 137.16 cm