Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: maker
content: Howe Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: Unequal-arm counter balance with an iron base painted red with a gold design, and the words “HOWE / TRADE MARK” and “10 lbs.” The words “HOWE SCALE / CO. / RUTLAND VT.” and the number “1066” appear in raised characters on the top, under the circular black plate. The beam is brass.
label: Description
content: The Howe Scale Company began in business in 1847; moved from Brandon to Rutland, Vt., in 1873; won medals at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, and the Paris Exposition of 1878; and began making balances of this sort around 1880.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Rutland
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cornell University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.318260
label: catalog number
content: 318260
label: accession number
content: 231262
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scale, Beam, Howe, Single Plate
label: Object Name
content: scale, beam, Howe
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: beam: 8 1/4 in; 20.955 cm
label: Measurements
content: base: 6 1/2 in; 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: scale: 8 in x 15 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in; 20.32 cm x 40.005 cm x 17.145 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: weight: 4 1/4 in x 2 in; 10.795 cm x 5.08 cm