Balance
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: A beam at front of this balance is divided into 100 equal parts, and carries a movable weight. Two duck’s heads meet, bill to bill at the center, to indicate balance. The frame is cast iron, painted gold. The pans, 9 inches diameter, are marked in the middle “H. Troemner / Maker / Philadelphia.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ross Sellers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0354.07
label: accession number
content: 1986.0354
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0354.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 48.2 cm x 22.8 cm x 12.4 cm; 19 in x 9 in x 4 7/8 in