Balance
date: label: Date made
content: 1925-1975
label: Date made
content: mid 20th century
name: label: maker
content: Christian Becker, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Simple and rugged micro-balance with a 4 inch beam, aluminum pans, and mahogany case with glass sides. The inscription on the white scale at bottom reads: “Christian Becker, Inc. / Style 300 No. 17513.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Christian Becker, Inc., <i>Becker Balances & Weights of Precision</i> (New York, 1936), p. 41.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas, <i>Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents</i> (Philadelphia, 1931), p. 69.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. John P. Lambooy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0214.1
label: catalog number
content: 1985.214.1
label: accession number
content: 1985.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance, Microchemical
label: Object Name
content: Microchemical Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: each pan: 38 mm; x 1 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: circular lens: 51 mm; x 2 in
label: Measurements
content: rectangular lens: 38 mm x 133 mm; 1 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: each arch: 15.2 cm; 6 in
label: Measurements
content: beam: 11.5 cm; x 4 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 13 1/2 in x 9 1/4 in; 38.1 cm x 34.29991 cm x 23.50008 cm