Westphal Specific Gravity Balance
notes: label: Description
content: A Westphal balance was designed to measure the buoyancy of an object by weighing that object in air and then in water. The form was devised by a German pharmacist, Karl Friedrich Mohr, and improved by Georg Westphal (1836-1902), a balance and philosophical apparatus maker in Celle. This example was used by Dr. Jacques Loeb at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rockefeller Institute through Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09350
label: catalog number
content: M-09350
label: accession number
content: 224610
label: catalog number
content: 224610.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Specific Gravity Balance
label: Object Type
content: balance
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 9 in x 6 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 22.86 cm x 16.51 cm