Balance
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Hand balance with a 5-inch iron beam, index, 2.25-inch brass pans, four small square weights, and wooden box. It was used by George Leon Lemaitre (1869-1946), the donor’s father.
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: Gift of Alice J. Lemaitre
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11153 [dup1]
label: catalog number
content: M-11153
label: accession number
content: 258919
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hand Balance
label: Object Name
content: 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 - case: 1 1/4 in x 6 in x 3 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 15.24 cm x 8.255 cm