Westphal Specific Gravity Balance
date: label: Date made
content: late 19th century
label: Date made
content: 1850-1900
notes: label: Description
content: A specific gravity balance is used to measure the buoyancy of an object by weighing that object in air and then in water. The form was devised by a German pharmacist, Karl Friedrich Mohr, and improved by Georg Westphal (1836-1902), a balance and philosophical apparatus maker in Celle. This example has a "F. SARTORIUS GOTTINGEN" inscription.
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: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330226
label: catalog number
content: 330226
label: accession number
content: 287963
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Specific Gravity Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.3 cm x 24.8 cm x 7.7 cm; 8 in x 9 3/4 in x 3 1/16 in