Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1884-1892
name: label: used by
content: Gibbs, Wolcott
label: maker
content: Becker Brothers
label: maker
content: Becker and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: According to the donor, this balance was used by the American chemist, Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (1822-1908). The case is wood with glass sides, and drawer in the base, and there is a “Becker & Sons, New York” inscription.That firm was in business, as such, from 1855 to 1884. In 1884 Christian and Ernst started their own business as Becker Brothers.
label: Description
content: Ref: Eimer & Amend, <i>Price List of Chemicals, Chemical Apparatus, and All Assay Goods</i> (New York, 1880), p. 50.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sidney Edelstein, President Dexter Chemical Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.319016
label: catalog number
content: 319016
label: accession number
content: 236092
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: base: 9 in x 24 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 62.23 cm
label: Measurements
content: balance: 47.5 cm x 62.4 cm x 23.6 cm; 18 11/16 in x 24 9/16 in x 9 5/16 in