Balance
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: Buckelew & Waterman
notes: label: Description
content: The “BUCKELEW & WATERMAN / PHILADA” inscription on this unequal arm balance refers to a partnership that appeared in Philadelphia city directories in 1868 and 1869, making and selling weighing scales, weights and measures. Albert G. Waterman was a scale maker; John D. Buckelew was a wealthy farmer from New Jersey who provided the capital for the business venture.
label: Description
content: Ref: Steve Beare, “Buckelew & Waterman—A Short-Lived Philadelphia Business,” <i>Equilibrium</i> (2006): 3113-3118.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13076
label: catalog number
content: M-13076
label: accession number
content: 321641
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (dial counter weight material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pan material)