Bismar
date: label: Date made
content: 18th century
label: Date made
content: 1700-1800
notes: label: Description
content: A bismar (or desemer) is a simple balance with a weight at one end of the beam, a load hook at the other end, and a moveable fulcrum in between. This example is made of wood, with an iron hook at one end and brass marks along the shaft, and is allegedly eighteenth century Swedish.
label: Description
content: Ref: Herrmann Sökeland “On Ancient Desemers or Steelyards,” <i>Smithsonian Institution Annual Report</i> (1900): 551-564.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Sweden
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.334142
label: catalog number
content: 334142
label: accession number
content: 308425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bismar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28.3 cm x 6.1 cm; 11 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/16 in x 2 3/16 in; 28.41625 cm x 5.55625 cm