Platform Scale
date: label: date made
content: 1856-1870
name: label: maker
content: Livingston Copeland and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The platform here is marked, in raised letters, “LIVINGSTON, COPELAND & CO. / NOVELTY WORKS” and “NO. 10.” The beam is marked “LIVINGSTON COPELAND & CO.” on one side, and “PITTSBURGH NOVELTY WORKS” on the other. Despite these inscriptions, the hardware for this scale, if not the entire device, was probably made by E. & T. Fairbanks in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
label: Description
content: The Pittsburgh Novelty Works was established in 1833 and specialized in “Domestic Hardware.” Laureston R. Livingston and John J. Roggen took charge of the firm in 1846. Livingston and William B. Copeland were proprietors by 1856. The shop burned in 1870 and was not rebuilt.
label: Description
content: Ref: Pittsburgh Novelty Works, <i>Catalogue and Price List</i> (Pittsburgh, [186?], pp. 18-29.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Detecto Scales, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.336577
label: accession number
content: 1978.0424
label: catalog number
content: 336577
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Platform Scale
label: Object Name
content: platform scale
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: each wheel: 15 cm; x 5 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: platform: 45 cm x 58.5 cm; x 17 11/16 in x 23 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 100 cm x 49.5 cm x 76 cm; 39 3/8 in x 19 1/2 in x 29 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: oak insert: 26.7 cm x 46.7 cm; 10 1/2 in x 18 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 in x 33 in x 18 in; 99.06 cm x 83.82 cm x 45.72 cm