Trip Scale
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
name: label: maker
content: Henry Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Trip scale with 4-inch pans; graduated beam with 120 divisions, marked GRN and in GRAN; and sliding weight. The base is cast iron, with a tag that reads “HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA, PA. / CAP. 4 OZ NO. [blank].” A shelf in front is meant to hold 5 brass weights (3 of which survive). Troemner introduced this form in the late 1870s and kept in production for many years.
label: Description
content: Ref: Weeks & Potter, <i>Revised Catalogue of Foreign and Domestic Drugs</i> (Boston, 1879), pp. 99-100.
label: Description
content: Henry Troemner, <i>Price List of Fine Scales and Weights</i> (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 18.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
title: label: Title
content: Trip Scale
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.337121
label: catalog number
content: 337121
label: accession number
content: 1979.0026
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Trip Scale
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: weight 1:;
label: Measurements
content: weight 2:;
label: Measurements
content: weight 3:;
label: Measurements
content: pan: 102 mm; x 4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.8 cm x 10.2 cm x 27.4 cm; 7 13/16 in x 4 in x 10 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: dish: 93 mm; x 3 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: scale: 7 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 19.685 cm x 26.035 cm x 9.525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: weights, in container: 2 in x 1 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 3.81 cm