Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1750s
name: label: maker
content: Aeckersberg, Johann Peter
notes: label: Description
content: Hand balance with a 3.75-inch steel beam, index, a 1.2-inch circular brass pan, a larger triangular brass pan, and a rectangular wooden box. It once had eight square weights (one is now missing). A paper label in the lid reads: “Recht abgezogen Waag und Gewichte macht Meister Joh. Pet. AEckers-berg in Oberbarmen auf Wichlinghausen . . . 175_”
place: label: place made
content: Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia, Oberbarmen
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: George A. Bender
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12943[dup 12]
label: accession number
content: 286284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance