Computing Scale
date: label: date made
content: 1920s
name: label: maker
content: Stimpson Computing Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: Large counter balance with a gold finish, cylindrical scale, and oval glass commodity plate. The word “STIMPSON” appears in large painted letters near the top.
label: Description
content: Walter Franklin Stimpson (1870-1942) obtained a U.S. patent (#543,323) for a computing scale on July 23, 1895. This example was probably made by the Stimpson Computing Scale Co., in Louisville, Ky., in the 1920s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky, Louisville
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City of New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0514.26
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.26
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 76.2 cm x 47 cm x 56.5 cm; 30 in x 18 1/2 in x 22 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 3/8 in x 18 3/8 in x 20 in; 74.6125 cm x 46.6725 cm x 50.8 cm