Balance
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1790
notes: label: Description
content: Hand balance with a 6-inch iron beam with index, 2.5-inch brass pans, rectangular wooden case, four nested brass weights, and five rectangular brass weights. A paper label in the lid of the box reads: “A TABLE of the Value and Weights of Coins, as they now pass in England, Philadelphia and New-York.” It also reads: “N.B. In Boston and Connecticut Dollars pass for 6S. and C (?) by weight.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Janice M. Bryant
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0052.02
label: accession number
content: 2005.0052
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0052.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scale
label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.5 cm x 18.2 cm x 9 cm; 1 3/8 in x 7 3/16 in x 3 9/16 in