Computing Scale
date: label: date made
content: around 1920
notes: label: Description
content: Large counter balance with a gold finish, fan-shaped scale at top, and the word “BRANTFORD” in large painted letters near the bottom. The commodity plate is round, white and porcelain. Brantford Computing Scales, Ltd. was a Canadian firm organized in 1910.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Canada
label: place made
content: Canada: Ontarian, Brantford
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: 1983.0514.27
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.27
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 72.4 cm x 38.2 cm x 45.7 cm; 28 1/2 in x 15 1/16 in x 18 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 13/16 in x 15 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in; 73.18375 cm x 39.37 cm x 46.99 cm