Balance (Replica)
name: label: used by
content: Black, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph Black (1728-1799) was a Scottish scientist who worked at the University of Glasgow and then the University of Edinburgh. Among his many achievements was developing a precise analytical balance with a light-weight beam balanced on a wedge-shaped fulcrum. Black’s original balance is now the National Museum of Scotland. Our example is a replica of that instrument.
label: Description
content: Ref: R. G. W. Anderson, <i>The Playfair Collection and the Teaching of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, 1714-1848</i> (Edinburgh, 1978).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.316202
label: catalog number
content: 316202
label: accession number
content: 224479
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance (replica)
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 81 cm x 64.8 cm x 26.7 cm; 31 7/8 in x 25 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: base: 8.8 cm x 57 cm x 26.7 cm; 3 7/16 in x 22 7/16 in x 10 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: beam: 17 in; 43.18 cm
label: Measurements
content: pan: 8 3/4 in; x 22.225 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 10 1/4 in x 22 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 26.035 cm x 56.515 cm x 8.255 cm
label: Measurements
content: upright: 26 in; 66.04 cm