Balance
notes: label: Description
content: Hand balance with a 6.5-inch iron beam with index, 2.7-inch brass pans, two rectangular weights, and rectangular wooden box.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Frank W. Sweitzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04507
label: catalog number
content: M-04507
label: accession number
content: 145287
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hand scale
label: Object Name
content: Hand Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (string material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (weights material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (beam material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (hanger material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pans(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 19.685 cm x 8.89 cm