Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Central Scientific Company
notes: label: Description
content: Agate-bearing, triple-beam trip scale with a black iron base; the round white ceramic plate is missing. The inscription at the end of the beams near the plate reads “CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC CO. / CHICAGO, U.S.A. / NEW YORK – BOSTON / TORONTO – LOS ANGELES / U.S. / PATENTS / 1,526,569 AND 1,859,604.” This was designed, in large part, by Herman Paul Sachse (1880-1933), a German immigrant who worked for the Central Scientific Company in Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: Herman Paul Sachse, “Balance,” U.S. Patent 1,526,569 (Feb. 17, 1925).
label: Description
content: Herman Paul Sachse, “Trip Scale,” U.S. Patent 1,859,604 (May 24, 1932), assigned to Central Scientific Company.
label: Description
content: Central Scientific Company, <i>Abridged Catalog of Scientific Instruments</i> (Chicago, 1936), p. 22.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George Washington University, School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10921.004
label: accession number
content: 259201
label: catalog number
content: M-10921.004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, porcelain (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (pan material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (weights(3) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)