Laboratory Balance
name: label: maker
content: Mettler
notes: label: Description
content: The E. Mettler Präzisionsapparate company was established by Erhard Mettler (1917-2000), a Swiss inventor and entrepreneur, in Küsnacht in 1945, and produced its first balance in 1946. By 1954, the Mettler Instrument Corp., in Hightstown, N.J., was the U.S. agent for Mettler balances. That firm donated this single pan B-5 Mettler laboratory balance to the Smithsonian in 1961. With the balance at zero, all weights are applied; when a load is placed on the pan, weights are lifted until the proximate balance is re-established.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.M-09954
label: accession number
content: 238818
label: catalog number
content: M-09954
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance, laboratory