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date: label: Date made
content: 1878
name: label: patented by
content: Cochran, Henry S.
label: maker
content: Cochran, H.S.
label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Henry S. Cochran, “new and useful Improvements in Scales for Weighing Bullion, Coin, &c.,” U.S. Patent 205,354 (June 13, 1878). Cochran was a weigher at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. The “H. TROEMNER PHILAD” inscription indicates the firm that made the model. In 1893, Cochran confessed to having embezzled gold bars worth $134,000 from the Mint vault.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.308961
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 308961
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 12 in x 5 in; 33.02 cm x 30.48 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 12 in x 5 in; 33.02 cm x 30.48 cm x 12.7 cm