Analytical Balance
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1870
name: label: maker
content: Becker and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: This analytical balance may once have belonged to George Frederick Barker (1835-1910), a physical scientist who taught at University of Pennsylvania, and was an active member of such organization as the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. The "Becker's Sons, Rotterdam" inscription refers to an instrument firm that was in business as such by the 1880s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Elihu Thomson, “George Frederick Barker, M.D., Sc.D., LL.D.,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 50 (1911): xiii-xxix.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Russell Munroe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.314900
label: catalog number
content: 314900
label: accession number
content: 212171
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Analytical Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/2 in x 7 in; 46.99 cm x 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: without stand: 18 in; 45.72 cm
label: Measurements
content: pan: 1 3/16 in; 3.01625 cm