Balance
date: label: Date made
content: 1886
label: Date made
content: 1893
label: date made
content: 1891
name: label: used by
content: Morley, Edward Williams
label: maker
content: Rüprecht, Albert
notes: label: Description
content: Analytical balance marked “A. RŰPRECHT WIEN” at the base of the column. A trade label in the case reads, in part: “ALB. RŰPRECHT. . . Mechanische Atelier für Präcisionwagen und Gewichte” with evidence of awards ranging from a diploma in 1873 to a gold medal from the Vienna exhibition of 1890.
label: Description
content: The Smithsonian Institution bought this balance for Edward W. Morley, a chemist at Adelbert College of Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Morley used it to measure the atomic weight of oxygen, and returned it to the Smithsonian after completing this work.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward W. Morley, “On the Densities of Oxygen and Hydrogen and on the Ratio of their Atomic Weights,” <i>Smithsonian Institution Contribution to Knowledge</i> 29 (1895).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
label: used
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.318173
label: catalog number
content: 318173
label: accession number
content: 232131
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (balance material)
label: Measurements
content: beam: 16 1/8 in; 40.9575 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 29 in x 30 in x 15 in; 73.66 cm x 76.2 cm x 38.1 cm