Balance
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
name: label: user
content: Lloyd, John Uri
notes: label: Description
content: Brass hand balance with a 5.5-inch beam, index, 2.5-inch pans, and crude rectangular wooden box. It was used by John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936), American pharmacist, eclectic physician, and novelist. It may have been made in the early 1860s by J. Wilbank, a German immigrant working in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: Ref: Michael Flannery, <i>John Uri Lloyd. The Great American Eclectic</i> (Carbondale, Il., 1998).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. J.T. Lloyd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02997
label: catalog number
content: M-02997
label: accession number
content: 112901
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance
label: Object Name
content: hand scale
label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 6 7/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 17.4625 cm x 8.255 cm