Computing Scale
date: label: date made
content: around 1910
name: label: maker
content: Toledo Computing Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: The grayish-green metal case of this large computing scale is marked “TOLEDO” and “NO SPRINGS.” The words “HONEST WEIGHT” can be seen through the window. A metal plate under the large round glass platform is marked “TOLEDO COMPUTING SCALE CO. / TOLEDO, OHIO, U.S.A.” and “STYLE NO. 831D / NO. 104487” and “PATENTED U.S. DEC. 25, 1906 / PATENTS PENDING.”
label: Description
content: The Toledo Computing Scale and Cash Register Company was established in 1901, became the Toledo Computing Scale Company in 1902, and the Toledo Scale Company in 1912.
label: Description
content: Ref: Allen DeVilbiss, Jr., “Computing-Scale,” U.S. Patent 839,736 (Dec. 25, 1906), assigned to Toledo Scale Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Toledo
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City of New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0514.16
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.16
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 77.5 cm x 43.2 cm x 59 cm; 30 1/2 in x 17 in x 23 1/4 in