Steelyard
notes: label: Description
content: Asian steelyard with a graduated bone or ivory beam, circular pan, pieced disc for sliding weight, and fitted wooden case. The donor described it as "Scales used by Chinamen for weighing gold dust in the early days of placer mining in Idaho."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
label: place mining in
content: United States: Idaho
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Major General F.C. Ainsworth, U.S.A.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.310273
label: catalog number
content: 310273
label: accession number
content: 60953
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Steelyard
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 1 in x 3 in x 13 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 34.29 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 1 in x 3 in x 13 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 34.29 cm