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date: label: date made
content: early twentieth century
name: label: maker
content: Angldile
notes: label: Description
content: Heavy scale with the words “AUTOMATIC COMPUTING / SCALE” and “PATENTED DEC. 13, 1904 / OTHER PATENTS PENDING” in the center of the dial, and “ANGLDILE” on the red rim. A price-weight chart can be seen through a window in the cone-shaped back. The commodity plate is square, porcelain and white.
label: Description
content: Joseph Edward Cochran coined the term Angldile in 1904 and, with the help of his father, established the Angldile Computing Scale Company in Elkhart, Indiana. The firm won a gold medal at Panama Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915.
label: Description
content: Ref: Joseph E. Cochran, “Computing-Scale Dial,” U.S. Patent 956,682 (May 3, 1910).
label: Description
content: Joseph E. Cochran, “Computing-Scale Dial,” U.S. Patent 957,934 (May 17, 1910).
label: Description
content: Flynt Wayne, “True Weights. Ancient and Modern,” <i>National Magazine</i> 34 (1911): 525-528.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Elkhart
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the City of Baltimore
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN79573Z12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in; 60.96 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/2 in x 31 in x 15 3/8 in; 44.45 cm x 78.74 cm x 39.0525 cm