Torsion Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1910
name: label: maker
content: Torsion Balance Company
notes: label: Description
content: Balance with 3-inch nickel-plated pans; a mahogany box with black glass slab, and hinged wood and glass cover; and metal tag that reads “THE TORSION BALANCE CO. / STYLE 277 / NO. 29539 / PAT. JAN. 9.85, JAN. 22. 89. MAY 19. 91.” The Torsion Balance Co., which began trading, as such, in 1908, described this model as a Class B scale for pharmaceutical, chemical and kindred work.
label: Description
content: Ref: The Torsion Balance Co., <i>Balances and Scales</i> (New York, 1934), p. 15
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Jersey City
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ferris State College, School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.312142.007
label: catalog number
content: 312142.007
label: accession number
content: 312142
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Torsion Balance
label: Other Terms
content: Manufacturing And Dispensing Equipment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/16 in x 13 1/8 in x 5 3/4 in; 16.03375 cm x 33.3375 cm x 14.605 cm