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date: label: date made
content: 1919
name: label: maker
content: Henry Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: The Smithsonian acquired this “New Triumph Plate Glass Box Prescription Scale” in 1919. The inscription on the ivory scale reads “HENRY TROEMNER / PHILADELPHIA.” That on the brass tag on the base reads: “HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA, PA. / CAP. 1/2 OZ, NO. CLASS ‘A’.” Troemner boasted that this instrument was “Built like the Wise Man’s House—upon a Rock. No springs to snap. Strongly built, yet sensitive—all Bearings of Selected Russian Agates.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner ad in <i>The Spatula</i> 20 (1913): 616.
label: Description
content: Henry Troemner, <i>Catalogue</i> (Philadelphia, 1916), p. 20.
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: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Henry Troemner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.M-00526
label: catalog number
content: M-00526
label: accession number
content: 64117
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/8 in x 12 7/8 in x 6 1/4 in; 21.9075 cm x 32.7025 cm x 15.875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: balance: 8 3/4 in x 12 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in; 22.225 cm x 32.385 cm x 17.145 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: parts in museum housing: 1 1/2 in x 7 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 18.0975 cm x 8.89 cm