Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1920-1961
name: label: maker
content: Voland & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Sturdy analytical balance designed for academic and industrial laboratory work. The cabinet is aluminum with glass sides. The inscription on the ivory scale reads “VOLAND & SONS / (INC) / NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. / SARGENT / E. H. SARGENT & CO. CHICAGO.” That on a metal tag reads “VOLAND & SONS, INC. / NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. / MODEL NO. 100 / SERIAL NO M 17231 / MADE IN U.S.A.” This was manufactured by Voland & Sons, Inc., and sold by E. H. Sargent & Co. According to the donor, this balance was used at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
label: Description
content: Peter Gottfried Voland (1852-1915) was a German immigrant who arrived in Baltimore in 1871, and went to work for Becker & Sons, balance makers in New Rochelle, N.Y. In 1888 he went into business with a fellow worker, Henry Van Zelm. The firm of Voland & Van Zelm became Voland & Sons in 1903, Voland & Sons, Inc., in 1920, and Voland Corporation in 1961.
label: Description
content: Ref: Voland & Sons, Inc., <i>Analytical Balances </i> (New Rochelle, N.Y., n.d.).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New Rochelle
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ronald S. Wilkinson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0365.03
label: accession number
content: 1995.0365
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0365.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Analytical Balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 43 cm x 43.4 cm x 26 cm; 16 15/16 in x 17 3/32 in x 10 1/4 in