Analytical Balance
date: label: date made
content: third quarter, twentieth century
name: label: maker
content: Christian Becker, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Christian Becker introduced the Projectomatic precision balance in the early 1950s. The case of this example is aluminum, with glass sides and top, and drawer in the bottom. The beam is aluminum; the knife edges are agate; the pans are stainless steel. One inscription on the handle reads “Christian Becker.” Another reads ”Christian Becker / Clifton, New Jersey / Made in U.S.A. Serial no. A-5853.” According to the firm, the Projectomatic “makes possible automatic weighings from 1/10 mg to 100 mg, the results of which may be read on the magnified image of the scale which is projected onto a conveniently located screen.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Christian Becker advertisement in <i>Analytical Chemistry</i> 23 (Sept. 1951): 29A.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1983.0778.01
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0778.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0778
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Analytical Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 51.1 cm x 44.4 cm x 21.5 cm; 20 1/8 in x 17 1/2 in x 8 7/16 in