Westphal Specific Gravity Balance
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
name: label: maker
content: Westphal, Georg
notes: label: Description
content: A specific gravity balance is used 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. The inscription on this example reads “G. Westphal - Celle.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Lower Saxony, Celle
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.318274
label: catalog number
content: 318274
label: accession number
content: 231262
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Specific Gravity Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: beam: 7 3/8 in; 18.7325 cm
label: Measurements
content: hydrometer:;
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 2 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 6.35 cm