Balance
date: label: date made
content: early twentieth century
name: label: maker
content: Dodge
notes: label: Description
content: This robust one-pan balance sits on an iron and marble base. A tag on front reads “THE MICROMETER / PATENTED NOV. 22, 1892 / MAR. 22, 1898 / JUL. 21. 1903 / THE DODGE MFG. CO. / YONKERS, N.Y.” According to an early account, this balance had no springs or loose weights, but the weight end of the beam is transformed into a quick acting screw, and upon this screw the weight is moved with great accuracy. The Micrometer Balance Scale Co. of Troy, N.Y., introduced the form in 1897. The Dodge Mfg. Co., of Yonkers, was selling these devices by 1905.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Micrometer Balance Scales,” <i>The Iron Age</i> 60 (Dec. 23, 1897): 44.
label: Description
content: Charles H. Mattice, “Scale,” U.S. Patent 599,529 (Feb. 22, 1898), assigned to Micrometer Balance Scale Co.
label: Description
content: Charles H. Mattice, “Balance,” U.S. Patent 600,979 (March 22, 1898), assigned to Micrometer Balance Scale Co.
label: Description
content: Dennis J. Whelan, “Scale,” U.S. Patent 734,383 (July 21, 1903).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Boericke and Tafel Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.311682.0023
label: catalog number
content: 311682.0023
label: accession number
content: 311682
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 15 in x 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 38.1 cm x 24.13 cm