Balance
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: Roberval balance with one round pan, one elongated pan, a rectangular iron base, and space for five weights (one is missing). A painted inscription reads “HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA.” “GEM NO 5” is in raised letters. This model was said to be “small, light and ornamental,” and adapted for weighing such things as lozenges and bon-bons.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner, <i>Price-List of Fine Scales and Weights</i> (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0197.06
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0197.06
label: accession number
content: 1997.0197
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)