Balance
date: label: date made
content: second half, nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: This brass balance in a chamois-lined mahogany box was designed for use with blowpipe analysis, The form came into use in the second half of the nineteenth century, and was often associated with Karl Friedrich Plattner (1800-1858), a German assayer who worked at the royal mines at Freiberg.
label: Description
content: Ref: Karl Friedrich Plattner, <i>The Use of the Blowpipe in the Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of Minerals, Ores, Furnace Products and Other Metallic Combinations</i> (London, 1850).
label: Description
content: Th. Richter, <i>Plattner’s Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis</i> (New York, 1873), pp. 26-35.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.328763
label: catalog number
content: 328763
label: accession number
content: 308252
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance and Weights
label: Object Type
content: Weights
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: each pan: 33 mm; x 1 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: each cup: 9.5 mm x 24 mm; 3/8 in x 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: beam: 18.3 cm; 7 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: column: 9 in; 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: clamp: 15.2 cm; 6 in
label: Measurements
content: box: 29/32 in x 4 19/32 in x 6 3/32 in; 2.286 cm x 11.684 cm x 15.494 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 1 1/2 in x 10 7/8 in x 5 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 27.6225 cm x 14.605 cm