Balance
notes: label: Description
content: Hanging balance with a 24-inch cylindrical wooden beam, and 11-inch wooden circular pans, all painted red and black. One pan is marked “0.5”. The index is brass, as are the loops at either end of the beam. A torn paper tag reads, in part, “U.S. CUSTOMS.”
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.027839
label: catalog number
content: 027839
label: accession number
content: 1979.0768
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: suspension: 75 cm x 88.3 cm; 29 1/2 in x 34 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: beam:;
label: Measurements
content: each pan: 6 cm x 28 cm; x 2 3/8 in x 11 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; pan, each: 2 1/2 in x 11 1/8 in; 6.35 cm x 28.2575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; beam: 24 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 60.96 cm x 12.065 cm x 2.8575 cm