Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Balance that fits into and hangs from the inside lid of a rectangular wooden box. The steel beam in 7 inches long; the pans are 2.2 inches diameter. The inscription on the ivory scale reads: “HENRY TROEMNER / PHILADELPHIA.” A tag on the box reads "HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA / CPA. 1 OZ. NO. 812 / MADE IN THE U.S.A."
label: Description
content: This resembles the form associated with the German immigrant, Herman Kohlbusch.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Taylor & Co., <i>Assayers’ Materials</i> (San Francisco, 1899), item 1131, p. 10.
label: Description
content: Henry Heil, <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price-list of Chemical Apparatus</i> (St. Louis, 1903), item 2584, pp. 100 and 116.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Henry Troemner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-03088
label: catalog number
content: M-03088
label: accession number
content: 116033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel (beam material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel (chains material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel (pans(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel (weights(3) material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: plated (beam production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: plated (chains production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: plated (pans(2) production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: plated (weights(3) production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 8 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 20.32 cm x 8.89 cm