Pocket Scale
notes: label: Description
content: Dr. Fitch’s Pocket Scale was on the market by 1885. An improved version, available by 1898, was designed for “Physicians, Druggists, Photographers, Scientists, Amateurs, and Families.” This cost $1, and could be had from Lillard & Co., in New York City.
label: Description
content: Ref: Calvin H. Fitch, “Prescription-Scales,” U.S. Patent 327,152 (Sept. 29, 1885), one-half assigned to Byron S. Fitch, of Richmond, Va.
label: Description
content: Ad in <i>Medical Times</i> 26 (1898): xvii.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.014
label: catalog number
content: 302606.014
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: collector/donor number
content: 49.2.1A
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content: scale