Assay Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1880
name: label: maker
content: Becker and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: The Smithsonian probably bought this assay balance around 1880, for use in its new laboratory for analyzing minerals. The case is wood with glass sides, and a drawer in the base. The “Becker & Sons, New York” inscription refers to a firm that was in business, as such, from 1855 to 1884.
label: Description
content: Ref: Fred W. Taylor, “Report of the Chemist,” Smithsonian Institution Annual Report (1881): 161-165.
label: Description
content: Eimer & Amend, Price List of Chemicals, Chemical Apparatus, and All Assay Goods (New York, 1880), p. 50.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smithsonian Institution Division of Mineralogy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316856
label: catalog number
content: 316856
label: accession number
content: 228766
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 18 1/2 in x 9 in x 15 in; 46.99 cm x 22.86 cm x 38.1 cm