Balance
name: label: maker
content: W. F. Stimpson Company
label: maker
content: W. F. Stimpson Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a large counter balance painted green with gold trim. The platform is glass. The frame of the scale is marked “DETROIT AUTOMATIC SCALE CO. / DISTRIBUTORS. DETROIT, MICH.” The inscription near the bottom reads “Detroit Automatic / SCALE COMPANY Distributors.” That on a metal plaque in the middle reads “706403 / PATENTED / JULY 3, 1900 / MAY 19, 1901. MARCH 27, 1907 / OTHERS PENDING / CAPACITY 100 LBS.”
label: Description
content: Walter Franklin Stimpson (1870-1942), then of Milan, Michigan, designed a computing scale in 1894, applied for a patent (issued as #543,323 on July 23, 1895), organized the Stimpson Computing Scale Co., and moved to Elkhart, Indiana. This firm was renamed the Detroit Automatic Scale Co. in 1912.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edwin Finn, “Scale-Loop,” U.S. Patent 652,957 (July 3, 1900), assigned to the Stimpson Computing Scale Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City of New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0514.06
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.06
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 78.2 cm x 49.5 cm x 51.5 cm; 30 13/16 in x 19 1/2 in x 20 1/4 in