Analytical Balance
date: label: Date made
content: 1937
name: label: maker
content: Kuhlmann, Wilhelm H.F.
notes: label: Description
content: This micro-chemical analytical balance was used in the Oakwold Laboratory in Alexandria, Virginia, one of the first commercial microanalytical laboratories in the United States. It has a wooden frame with glass sides. The inscription on a tag reads “MADE BY / WILH. H. F. KUHLMANN / HAMBURG GERMANY / SOLD BY ARTHUR H. THOMAS CO. / PHILADA. U.S.A.” The beam is marked “WILH. H. F. KUHLMANN HAMBURG.” There is a small telescope for reading the scale.
label: Description
content: Ref: Fritz Pregl, <i>Quantitative Organic Microanalysis</i> (Philadelphia, 1930).
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas, <i>Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents</i> (Philadelphia, 1931), p. 69.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hamburg, Hamburg
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Wilbur Patterson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.329781
label: catalog number
content: 329781
label: accession number
content: 283425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: micro-chemical balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: beam: 7 cm; 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: each pan: 3.5 cm; x 1 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 32 cm x 38 cm x 22.3 cm; 12 5/8 in x 14 15/16 in x 8 3/4 in