Balance
date: label: date made
content: late eighteenth century
name: label: maker
content: Beach, T.
notes: label: Description
content: Small balance with a 9-inch iron beam—inscribed “T. BEACH” on one side, and “BEACH” on the other—and two brass pans 5 inches diameter. The whole is held in a rectangular oak box. Thomas Beach was a balance maker in Birmingham, England.
label: Description
content: D. F. Crawforth-Hitchins, “Thomas Beach,” <i>Equilibrium</i> (1991-1992): 1499-1513, 1539-1548, 1572-1580.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.389106.1
label: catalog number
content: 389106.1
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hand Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 6 cm x 29 cm x 15.6 cm; 2 3/8 in x 11 7/16 in x 6 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: each pan: 22 mm x 127 mm; 7/8 in x 5 in
label: Measurements
content: overall suspended: 37.2 cm x 35.6 cm x 12.7 cm; 14 5/8 in x 14 in x 5 in