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date: label: Date made
content: 1900-1983
label: Date made
content: 20th century
label: date made
content: 1900-1920
name: label: maker
content: Angldile
notes: label: Description
content: Large balance with “ANGLDILE” splashed across the front of a large circular dial that shows the weight; a smaller cylindrical dial on the back, set at an angle and seen by the clerk, shows weight and price. A metal tag at bottom reads “N.Y. CITY / APPROVED / TYPE 12 / SERIAL V / STYLE 303 GE / NO. 25286.”
label: Description
content: The Angldile Computing Scale Company was established in 1908 in Elkhart, Indiana, and manufactured scales developed by Joseph Edward Cochran. It won a gold medal at Panama Pacific Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915.
label: Description
content: Ref: Joseph E. Cochran, “Computing-Scale Dial,” U.S. Patent 956,682 (May 3, 1910).
label: Description
content: Joseph E. Cochran, “Computing-Scale Dial,” U.S. Patent 957,934 (May 17, 1910).
label: Description
content: Flynt Wayne, “True Weights. Ancient and Modern,” <i>National Magazine</i> 34 (1911): 525-528.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Elkhart
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City of New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0514.01
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 68 cm x 72.4 cm x 41.2 cm; 26 3/4 in x 28 1/2 in x 16 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 1/4 in x 29 in x 15 3/4 in; 66.675 cm x 73.66 cm x 40.005 cm