Torsion Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1891-1908
notes: label: Description
content: This balance has a case of glass and mahogany. The pans are nickel plated brass, and 9 inches diameter. The beam is steel and 12 inches long. The inscription on the floor of the case reads: “THE SPRINGER TORSION BALANCE CO. / STYLE 252 NEW YORK NO. 16095 / PAT. JAN. 6, 85, JAN. 22, 89, MAY 19, 91.”
label: Description
content: The Springer Torsion Balance Co. began in business, as such, in 1887; mounted an elaborate display at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893; and boasted that its counter scales were “the standard of perfection.” It became the Torsion Balance Co. in 1908.
label: Description
content: Ref: Springer Torsion Balance Co., <i>Price List of Fine Scales and Weights</i> (New York, 1900), p. 7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Jersey City
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rutgers University Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.327646
label: catalog number
content: 327646
label: accession number
content: 268279
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Torsion Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: beam: 12 in; 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.2 cm x 52 cm x 25.4 cm; 9 1/2 in x 20 1/2 in x 10 in
label: Measurements
content: each pan: 10 in x 9 1/16 in; 25.4 cm x 22.99995 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 21 in x 9 7/8 in; 24.13 cm x 53.34 cm x 25.0825 cm