Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1920
name: label: maker
content: Christian Becker, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Specific gravity balance in a wooden frame with glass panels. The inscription on the ivory scale reads: “CHAINOMATIC / Christian BECKER, INC. / NEW YORK." "B 26493” is on the side of the base. The specific gravity scale is marked “PAT. NOV. 7, 1916.”
label: Description
content: By using a chain weight instead of several small weights, the Chainomatic design permitted rapid weighing. Christian Becker’s son, Christopher A. Becker, did not invent the form, but he obtained a U.S. patent in 1916, and received the Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit from the Franklin Institute in 1917.
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur H. Thomas, <i>Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents</i> (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 56.
label: Description
content: C. A. Becker, “Weighing Scale,” U.S. Patent 1,203,686 (Nov. 7, 1916).
label: Description
content: John T. Stock, “Victor Serrin and the Origins of the Chainomatic Balance,” <i>Bulletin of the History of Chemistry</i> 3 (1990): 12-15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cornell University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.318270
label: catalog number
content: 318270
label: accession number
content: 231262
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 15 in x 14 in x 8 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 35.56 cm x 21.59 cm