Balance
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
label: date made
content: around 1890
name: label: maker
content: Kohlbusch, Herman
notes: label: Description
content: Brass balance with an 11-inch beam, mounted on a wooden box with a drawer in the base. The inscription on the ivory scale reads “H. KOHLBUSCH / NEW YORK.” A label inside the drawer reads: “Directions for setting up Balance . . . HERMAN KOHLBUSCH MANUFACTURER, . . .WARREN ST., NEW YORK” (with Warren St. crossed off and replace with “59 Nassau Str.”).
label: Description
content: Herman Kohlbusch (1822-1903) was an immigrant from Saxony who was in the United States by 1850. He later boasted that he brought “great practical experience to bear, and an intimate knowledge of the wants of chemists, jewellers, druggists, and scientific men.” He had supplied the government with scales, and won awards at the American Institute fairs of 1867, 1869, and 1874.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Illustrated New York. The Metropolis of Today</i> (New York, 1888), p. 147.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0924.10
label: accession number
content: 1987.0924
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0924.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45.7 cm x 28 cm x 45.7 cm; 18 in x 11 in x 18 in