Balance
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1788
name: label: maker
content: Kruse, Abraham
notes: label: Description
content: Hand balance with 4.5-inch iron beam, iron index, shallow copper pans 1.5 inches diameter, and 12 square brass weights in such units as Carlin, Ducat, Maxd, Pistol and Sever. The whole fits in a rectangular wooden case; a paper inside the lid is marked: “Rechtabgezogen Waag und Gewicht. . . von Sr. KONIGL MAJEST. In PREUSSEN allergnäc privilegivt- und examinivter auch geschworner Icht Macher ABRAHAM KRUSE, zu Schwelm in der Grassschft Marck. Anno 1788.”
label: Description
content: While in the Netherlands in 1960, Bruno Kisch acquired this for the new National Museum of History and Technology.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia, Schwelm
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.318236
label: catalog number
content: 318236
label: accession number
content: 235397
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance with weights
label: Object Type
content: Weights
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: brass pan: 1 1/4 in; x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 1 in x 2 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 6.35 cm x 13.0175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 1 3/16 in x 5 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 3.01625 cm x 13.0175 cm x 6.35 cm