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date: label: date made
content: 1885
name: label: maker
content: Bankwitz, Ernest C.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Ernest C. Bankwitz, “Weighing-Scale,” U.S. Patent 331,020 (Nov. 24, 1885). Bankwitz, a machinist in Bridgeport, Conn., claimed that his counter scale was “extremely sensitive” as well as “simple in construction, economical in cost, durable, and always ready for use.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.64.1017
label: accession number
content: 258253
label: patent number
content: 331,020
label: catalog number
content: 64.1017
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/16 in x 8 7/16 in x 18 1/2 in; 20.79625 cm x 21.43125 cm x 46.99 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 18 1/2 in x 8 3/8 in; 19.685 cm x 46.99 cm x 21.2725 cm