Steelyard
date: label: date made
content: around 1890
notes: label: Description
content: The Smithsonian bought this steelyard in 1894 from K. Noro, Superintendent of the Osaka Exhibition Association. It has a 39-inch wooden beam with inlaid silver dots for graduations, iron hook and fittings, and cloth suspension straps.
label: Description
content: Ref: H. Ling Roth, “Oriental Steelyards and Bismars,” <i>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland</i> 42 (1912): 200-233.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.202857
label: accession number
content: 27834
label: catalog number
content: 202857
objectType: label: Object Name
content: steelyard
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 in x 11 1/2 in x 1.25 m; 106.68 cm x 29.21 cm x 4 1/8 ft
label: Measurements
content: arm: 29 mm; x 1 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 106.68 cm x 6.35 cm x 4.445 cm